XLV.

He soon for her too harsh and churlish grew,

And Abel (the dam dead) would use this new

For the field; being of two kinds thus made,

He, as his dam, from sheep drove wolves away,

And, as his sire, he made them his own prey.

Five years he lived, and cozened with his trade,

Then, hopeless that his faults were hid, betrayed

Himself by flight, and by all followed,

From dogs a wolf, from wolves a dog, he fled,

And, like a spy, to both sides false, he perished.

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