More Beasts (For Worse Children)

The Porcupine

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Porcupine

What! would you slap the Porcupine? Unhappy child—desist! Alas! that any friend of mine Should turn Tupto-philist.[B]

To strike the creature

To strike the meanest and the least Of creatures is a sin,

With prickes on its skin

How much more bad to beat a beast With prickles on its skin.

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Note 1 · From τυπτω=I strike; φιλεω=I love; one that loves to strike. The word is not found in classical Greek, nor does it occur among the writers o

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