The Dog and the Fox. A guilty fox confesses to killing hens and lambs to a sheepdog. In the background, Dame Dobbins takes her poultry cages to market riding an ox. Copperplate engraving by William Blake after an illustration by Hubert François Bourguignon Gravelot from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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