‘Tis the Fate of all Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
Source: L'Estrange 5
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Aesop 1660 images.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
L'Estrange: A Lion and a Bear
There was a Lion and a Bear had gotten a Fawn betwixt them, and there were they at Tooth and Nail which of the two should carry it off. They fought it out, till they were e’en glad to lie down and take a breath. In which Instant, a Fox passing that way, and finding how the Case stood with the two Combatants, seized upon the Fawn for his own use, and so fairly scamper’d away with him. The Lion and the Bear saw the whole Action, but not being in condition to rise and hinder it, they pass’d this Reflection upon the whole matter; Here we have been worrying one another who should have the Booty, ’till this cursed Fox has bobb’d us both on’t.
‘Tis the Fate of all Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
Source: L'Estrange 5
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Aesop 1660 images.
‘Tis the Fate of all Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
Source: L'Estrange 5
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Aesop 1660 images.
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