How can the cat help it when the maid is a fool

How can the cat help it when the maid is a fool

How can the cat help it when the maid is a fool? Often things lost, given, or stolen, are laid to the cat.

If thou 'scap'st, thou hast cat's luck, in Fletcher's Knight of Malta, alluding to the activity and caution of the cat, which generally stands it in good stead.

I'll not buy a cat in a poke. F., Chat en Poche. See what you buy; bargain not on another's word.

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