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 * Which less, if you please,
 * Is doubtless worth the cheese.

A bit too late, Sir Raven swore The rogue should never cheat him more.

III.

THE FROG THAT WISHED TO BE AS BIG AS THE OX.


 * An envious little frog
 * Not bigger than an egg,
 * A stately bullock spies,
 * And, smitten with his size,
 * Attempts to be as big.
 * With earnestness and pains
 * She stretches, swells, and strains,

And says, 'Sir Frog, look here! see me!
 * Is this enough?' 'No, no.'
 * 'Well, then, is this?' 'Poh! poh!

Enough! you don't begin to be.'
 * And thus the reptile sits,
 * Enlarging till she splits.
 * The world is full of folks
 * Of just such wisdom:
 * The lordly dome provokes
 * The cit to build his dome;
 * And, really, there is no telling

How much great men set little ones a swelling.