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.1
Note 1. Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collierwhite; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barberblack. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime oerspread, And beats the collier and the barberred: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. Christopher Smart: The Trip to Cambridge (on Campbells Specimens of the British Poets, vol. vi. p. 185). [back]
Note 5. Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.Plutarch: How a Young Man ought to hear Poems. [back]
Note 6. A penny saved is twopence dear; A pin a day s a groat a year. Benjamin Franklin: Hints to those that would be Rich (1736). [back]