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Thus have these eyes beheld a cock so stately
(Indeed these lyric eyes beheld one lately),
Lab'ring upon a dunghill with each knuckle:
When after many a peck, and scratch, and scrub,
This hunter did unkennel a poor grub,
On which the fellow did so strut and chuckle;
He peck'd and squinted—peck'd and kenn'd agen,
Hallooing lustily to Madam Hen;
To whom, with airs of triumph, he look'd round,
And told what noble treasure he had found.