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Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Henry Fielding
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- Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.
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