“Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.”

—  Alexander Pope , The Rape of the Lock

Canto III, line 157.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)

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