Brewer's: Cats

Mistress Tofts, the singer, left legacies at death to twenty cats.

Not Niobê mourned more for fourteen brats, Nor Mistress Tofts, to leave her twenty cats.

Peter Pindar: Old Simon.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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