Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Thomas Flatman

Like a dog with a bottle fast tied to his tail,
Like vermin in a trap or a thief in a jail,
Like a Tory in a bog
Or an ape with a clog:
Such is the man who, when he might go free,
Does his liberty lose
For a matrimony noose,
And sells himself into captivity.

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