There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.


The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 327


There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.

There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.

There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.

There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.