A Peevish Fellow laid his Head
Title:
The Man bitten by Fleas
Primary Text:
No MS; 1713 Misc, 223-6.
Secondary Ed:
Rpt of 1713: 1903 Reynolds, 200-2.
Source:
La Fontaine, "L'Homme et la Puce," VIII, 5, 211-2
Comment:
Finch elaborates La Fontaine's brief general verse paragraph into a series of burlesque stanzas to make a political fable with a specifically Tory moral; stanzas 6-13 entirely her own.