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When beasts could speak (the learned say / They still can do so every day), / It seems, they had religion then, / As much as now we find in men. /
It happened when a plague broke out (Which therefore made them more devout) / The king of brutes (to make it plain, / Of quadrupeds I only mean), / By proclamation gave command, / That every subject in the land / Should to the priest confess their sins; / And thus the pious wolf begins: