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Aesop's fables (1687)

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. XLII. The Fox and Wolf.

A Fox does to a Hunters rage betray
A Lambe gorg'd wolf who close in kenelld lay,
The conquering Swain his Iustice to evince
First kills the wolf, and then the Evidence.

Morall

From this that certaine truth we may inferr
Who loves the guilt, heats the discoverer.
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