The Sharpers about Town very ingeniously understood themselves to be the undesigning Part of Mankind what Foxes are to Lambs, and therefore used the Word Biting to express any Exploit wherein they had over-reach'd any innocent and inadvertent Man of his Purse.

Cambden , the nourice of antiquitie

Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]

Here spreads a cosy net of little fields Secured with hedges, wild and winterful, Watching the year revolve.