Sunday, December 26, 2010

Boothby: The Cripple to the Reprobate

Once to a Reprobate replied
A Cripple, "You who thus deride
My ills with foolish insolence,
When will you learn a little sense?
Though weak in body, you will find
In me no impotence of mind.
My want of strength I chiefly rue,
Not to chastise such fools as you."
Since God has made us as we are,
To scoff his work let no man dare.
For ills alone men are to blame,
Which through their pride or folly came.


Source: Boothby - Phaedrus 3.10.
(not in Mille) Perry502
Note that Boothby has changed the fable from being about a eunuch to a man who is crippled.

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