How like a goat she smells, said of libidinous old women. The phrase, therefore, taken originally from the Greeks, is neither modern nor peculiar to this country; though no where used, it may be presumed, but among the common people.

The old ape is taken at length. This was said, when any one, who for a long time, by craft and cunning, had succeeded in plundering his neighbours, was at last taken, and condemned to suffer the punishment due to his crimes. Our English proverb has it, The old fox is caught at last.