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The MISER and the MOUSE.
Epigram III.
To a Mouse says a Miser, “my dear Mr. Mouse,“Pray what may you please for to want in my house?”
Says the Mouse, “Mr. Miser, pray keep yourself quiet,
“You are safe in your person, your purse, and your diet:
“A lodging I want, which ev'n you may afford,
“But none wou'd come here to beg, borrow, or board.”
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