L'Estrange: A Cuckow and Little Birds
A Cuckow was asking several Little Birds, what made them so Shy of coming into her Company. They told her, that she was so like a Hawk, they did not care to have any thing to do with her.
A Wise Man Searches into the Nature of Things, and does not Govern himself by outward Semblances and Appearances.Source:
L'Estrange 419.
(not in Mille) Perry446
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