A Fox and a Hare presented a Petition to Jupiter. The Fox pray’d for the Hare’s swiftness of Foot, and the Hare for the Fox’s Craft and Wyliness of Address. Jupiter told them, since every Creature has some Advantage or other peculiar to itself, it would not stand with divine Justice, that had provided so well for every one in Particular, to confer all upon any one.
The Boundaries of Heaven are in such manner distributed, that every living Creature has its share; beside, that to desire Things against Nature, is effectually to blame the very Author of Nature itself.Source:
L'Estrange 81.
Here is an illustration for the story (
Hermitage Museum) showing Zeus enthroned.
M0175 (not in Perry)
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