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On 2 July 1649, less than six months after the execution of Charles I, Richard Overton ‘staged’ a metaphorical baiting in which the Leveller dogs took on the great Bull of Bashan.
Whu — all my brave Levelling Bull dogs and Bear dogs, where are you? Siz —, ha — looe — ha — looe — all fly at him at once: There at him, at him; O brave Jockey with the Sea-green ribbond in his eare! that Dog and his fellow for fourty shillings a Dog: Hold, hold, he hath caught him by the Gennitals, stave him off, give the Bull fair play. — A pox — they have burnt my Dogs mouth.1
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Fudge, E. (2000). Epilogue: Return to the Bear Garden. In: Perceiving Animals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62415-7_8
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