Aesop's fables (1687) :: :: University of Virginia Library

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. XII. The Ringdove and Fowler.

While the young fouler sought, with eager skill,
A Ring Dove in a neighbouring Tree to kill.
An Adder in the floury mead beneath,
Slung the unhappy youth, and stung to death.

Moral

The young usurper, who design'd t'invade,
An others right, himselfe the victim made.