A Certain Eagle that had a mind to be well serv'd, took up a Resolution of preferring those that she found most agreeable, for Person and Address; and so there past an Order of Council for all Her Majesty's Subjects to bring their Children to Court. They came accordingly, and every one in their Turn was for advancing their own: 'Till at last the Owl fell a mopping, and twinkling, and told Her Majesty, that if a gracious Mien and Countenance might entitle any of her Subjects to a Preference, she doubted not but her Brood would be look'd upon in the first Place; for they were as like the Mother as if they had been spit out of her Mouth. Upon this the Board fell all into a Fit of Laughing, and call'd another Cause.
No Body ever saw an ill-favour'd Fool in the World yet, Man or Woman, that had not a good Opinion of his own Wit and Beauty.Source:
L'Estrange 214.
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SLIDESHOW of all the Grandville images. This is actually an image for a different fable (the story of the pact of friendship between the owl and the eagle), but it fits this fable, too!
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