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Aesop's fables (1687)

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. XCIX. The Old Lion.

The Lyon sick the beasts do all agree,
To take revenges for past injury,
He beares with royal patience, till he feeles
The dull Ass spurne him with his sawcy heeles.

Morall

Then dying cryd, let the proud great be warn'd,
For when they'r falne by kneaves, and fooles they'r scornd
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