Note 2 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.
Reading edition
The following whimsical imitation of Chaucer was written, I believe, by Hermes Harris:—
"Right welle my lerned clerkis it is said, That womanhoode for manne his use was made; But naughtie manne liketh not one, or soe, But wisheth aye unthriftilie for mo; And when by holie church to one he's tied, Then for his soule he cannot her abide. Thus when a dogge first lighteth on a bone, His taile he waggeth,—gladde thereof y-growne; But if thilke bone untoe his taile thou tie, Pardie, he fearing it, away doth flie."