Who once in fraud has been detected,
For ever after lives suspected.
A sharping Wolf a Fox indites
Of swindling, and to judgment cites
Before the Ape: Long was the trial,
And Reynard stout in his denial.
The pleadings done, the Ape at last
Is said this sentence to have past:
"You, Wolf, I doom to pay the cost,
For you seem nothing to have lost;
You, Fox, condemn to reparation,
On your notorious reputation."
Source: Boothby - Phaedrus 1.10.
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