The Dog in the Manger

Samuel Croxall, “The Dog in the Manger,” in Æsop’s Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices (London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, C. Dilly et al. 1722), 219.

A Dog was lying upon a manger full of hay. An Ox, being hungry, came near, and offered to eat of the hay; but the envious ill-natured cur, getting up and snarling at him, would not suffer him to touch it. Upon which the Ox, in the bitterness of his heart, said, ‘A curse light on thee, for a malicious wretch, who wilt neither eat hay thyself, nor suffer others to do it.’

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