<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529395" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Batchelors Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail,<br>Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in a Jail,<br> Or like a Tory in a Bog,<br> Or an Ape with a Clog:<br>Such is the man, who when he might go free,<br> Does his liberty loose,<br> For a Matrimony noose,<br> And sels himself into Captivity;<br>The Dog he do's howl, when his bottle do's jog,<br>The Vermin, the Theif, and the Tory in vain<br>Of the trap, of the Jail, of the Quagmire complain.<br>But welfare poor Pug! for he playes with his Clog;<br>And tho' he would be rid on't rather than his life,<br>Yet he lugg's it, and he hug's it, as a man does his wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Flatman">Thomas Flatman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529395" data-title="The Batchelors Song de Thomas Flatman" data-description="Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail, Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in a Jail, Or like a Tory in a Bog, Or an Ape with a Clog: Such is the man, who when he might go free, Does his liberty loose, For a Matrimony noose, And sels ..."></div> </div> </div>

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