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Lion And Cub
All men are fond of rule and place, / Though granted by the mean and base; / Yet all superior merit fly,
Lion, Fox, And Gander
A lion, sick of pomp and state, / Resolved his cares to delegate. / Reynard was viceroy named - the crowd
Lion, Tiger, And Traveller
Accept, my Prince, the moral fable, / To youth ingenuous, profitable. / Nobility, like beauty's youth,
Man And Flea
Nothing, methinks, is to be seen / On earth that does not overween. / Doth not the hawk, from high, survey
Man, Cat, Dog, And Fly
() / My native land, whose fertile ground / Neptune and Amphitrite bound, -
Miser And Plutus
The wind was high, the window shook, / The miser woke with haggard look; / He stalked along the silent room,
Mother, Nurse, And Fairy
"Give me a son, grant me an heir!" / The fairies granted her the prayer. / And to the partial parent's eyes
Old Dame And Cats
He who holds friendship with a knave, / Will reputation hardly save; / And thus upon our choice of friends
Old Hen And Young Cock
Once an old hen led forth her brood / To scratch and glean and peck for food; / A chick, to give her wings a spell,
Owl And Farmer
An owl took, in a barn, a station / As fittest for deep contemplation; / There (like a Turk) upon a beam
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