Note 25 — THE Curiosities of Dudley AND THE Black Country. (continued 3)
Reading edition
The Vicar’s live stock is said to be of the starveling family, like the nags in the Epigram:
“Thy nags (the leanest things alive) So very hard thou lov’st to drive; I heard thy anxious coachman say, It cost thee more in whips than hay.”