Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cats

Mistress Tofts, the singer, left legacies at death to twenty cats.

Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats,
Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats.

Peter Pindar: Old Simon.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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