“193. If the old dog barke he gives counsell.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936) <br class="br">1930s
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