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***3604 | ght. The gods, in anguish, he invokes; His faithless hostess rudely mocks; He struggles up, she struggles down. A kite, that hovers in the air, Inspectin | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | g everything with care, Now spies the rat belike to drown, And, with a rapid wing, Upbears the wretched thing, The frog, too, dangling by the string! The | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | joy of such a double haul Was to the hungry kite not small. It gave him all that he could wish-- A double meal of flesh and fish. The best contrived dec | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | eit Can hurt its own contriver, And perfidy doth often cheat Its author's purse of every stiver. | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | es, this story is true, When told in relation to you. In settling your quarrels with kings for your tools, You prove yourselves losers and eminent fools. | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | to devour, And trample, and waste, in the space of an hour, Far more than a nation of foraging hares Could possibly do in a hundred of years. Small princ | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | ds Where slaughter'd legions fell; But by said trollop's tattle, The loss of life in battle Thinn'd most the rattish race In almost every place; And fina | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | THE BATTLE OF THE RATS AND THE WEASELS.[7]The weasels live, no more than cats, On terms of friendship with the rats; And, were it not that these Thro | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | ugh doors contrive to squeeze Too narrow for their foes, The animals long-snouted Would long ago have routed, And from the planet scouted Their race, as | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | lly their rout Was total, spite of stout Artarpax and Psicarpax, And valiant Meridarpax,[8] Who, cover'd o'er with dust, Long time sustain'd their host | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | I suppose. One year it did betide, When they were multiplied, An army took the field Of rats, with spear and shield, Whose crowded ranks led on A king na | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | Down sinking on the plain. Their efforts were in vain; Fate ruled that final hour, (Inexorable power!) And so the captains fled As well as those they le | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | ly, 'twas their error. Nor hole, nor crack, nor crevice Will let their head-gear in; While meaner rats in bevies An easy passage win;-- So that the shaft | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | ree, Who proudly had assumed Each one a helmet plumed; We know not, truly, whether For honour's sake the feather, Or foes to strike with terror; But, tru | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | d; The princes perish'd all. The undistinguish'd small In certain holes found shelter, In crowding, helter-skelter; But the nobility Could not go in so f | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | s of fate Do chiefly hit the great. A feather in the cap Is oft a great mishap. An equipage too grand Comes often to a stand Within a narrow place. The s | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | mall, whate'er the case, With ease slip through a strait, Where larger folks must wait. | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | inclosed, Where sorrel and lettuce, at random disposed, A little of jasmine, and much of wild thyme, Grew gaily, and all in their prime To make up Miss | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | THE GARDENER AND HIS LORD.A lover of gardens, half cit and half clown, Possess'd a nice garden beside a small town; And with it a field by a live hedge | for 1 år siden |
***3604 | f the good owner bore down This tale to the lord of the town:-- 'Some mischievous animal, morning and night, In spite of my caution, comes in for his bit | for 1 år siden |