Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a…

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

Sourced, Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

Act I, sc. vi

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