The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus

The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus.

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31 [I sawe one stately stalking like a crane]

I sawe one stately stalking like a crane
Strike at a stripling, something like a man,
At the first stroke, he gaue the wretch his bane,
Threw him in the dirt, and with him ran
Vnto the water, where he washt and beate him,
And at a mouthfull at the last he eate him.

It was, if Æsope be a storie, the blocks successour, the woorthie king of frogs. Viz. a storke, deuouring one of his subiects, in Claxton garden.

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[I sawe one stately stalking like a crane]