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

  • Edward Holdsworth
Date:
1709
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mouse-trap, or, The Welsh engagement with the mice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In gentle Flexures now her Body bends, And couchant now the panting Prey attends; Then with diffemhling Paws The pawms him o’er, And Frienfhip feigns, althoJ refolved to devour: Thus various Methods wantonly (he tries. Revels in Blood, and fports in Cruelties, But tir'd at length with trifling Time away, Her kindling Anger brooks no longer flay. But like a hungry Lyon clofes with her Prey A furly Growl the dire Refolve portends, Without Remorfe his reeking Bowels rends, And mangled Limbs the dreadful Conflict ends. No fooner did the long expecting Croud See the DifFufion of that hated Blood, But joyful Clamours o'er the Mountains rife, And Peals of hideous Shoutings reach the Skies. Echo, (who keeps in Wales her ancient Seat) i The loud Huzza's from Hill to Hill repeats, To diftant Borders bears the mighty Sound, And beats the joyful Replications round. Brechin, and Snowdon, and Fbinliminon Ring with Sound, and drive it further on ^ Even Stars are reach'd by the ft upend ious Voice, And Offas Ditch refounds the dreadful Noife. Oh, Taffy / May ever be thy Works fecure to Fame, And Cambria ever celebrate thy Name. Oft as the Sun brings round the circling Year, May they remember thee, their great Deliverer: May then her Sons their Country’s Glory fpeak, And bind their fcented Temples with a verdant Lceh