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AN APPEAL TO CATS IN THE BUSINESS OF LOVE; SONG, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye cats that at midnight spit love at each other
Last Line: Keep their feet, mount their tails, and away!
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Love


YE Cats that at midnight spit love at each other,
Who best feel the pangs of a passionate lover,
I appeal to your scratches and your tattered fur,
If the business of Love be no more than to purr.
Old Lady Grimalkin with her gooseberry eyes,
Knew something when a kitten, for why she was wise;
You find by experience, the love-fit's soon o'er,
Puss! Puss! lasts not long, but turns to Cat-whore!
Men ride many miles,
Cats tread many tiles,
Both hazard their necks in the fray;
Only Cats, when they fall
From a house or a wall,
Keep their feet, mount their tails, and away!





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