The mouse-trap, or, The Welsh engagement with the mice.

  • Edward Holdsworth
Date:
1709
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Credit: The mouse-trap, or, The Welsh engagement with the mice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From Marietta ( who their Wizard Merlin boaft ) And cold Gomercian Hills, all ftiff withFroft • From the rich Fields of great Glamorgan fome, * And others from the Banks of Vaga come. Soon as the Croud a decent Ring had made, Taffy began his Pris’ner to upbraid, ’ And urging his fierce Anger, thus he faid : In vain alas for Liberty you try, For ’cis relblv’d this Moment you (hall die And on my Altar the firft Viffim lye: As a Memorial of our Country’s Good, i hefe Doors fha'l be fprinkled with thy Blood. No Glimpfe of Hope, vile Mijcreant, now remains Th’ inexorable Bars thy Flight reftrain; ’ For thy vile Deeds thou fhalt Attonement make, And with thy Lite thy Prifon too forfake. Scarce this had honeft Taffy fpoke, but foon i *10m the Houfe-top a nimble Cat leaps down. Where with extended Limbs fhe often lav. And in the Sunfhine bask’d her Time away. The Pris’ner fees her, and with prick’d up Ears raiies his Back, and ftiffens with his Fears; He dares not now approach the open Door’ Bur thinks his dole Confinement moil fecure- Strongly he does the friendly Wires imbrace,’ And there all his Hopes of Safety place hold ‘hey ffiake him foon away. Swiftly the watchful Cat flies on her Prev ' iir— linJ1?r.Sr'P*n§ Claws the Foe detains vVhile ifrtving to elcape he itrives in vain. No Kelts allow ’d, Tufs can’t her Joys conceal, m, oer the Conquer'd pur's, and waves her Tail • In