Of the Wolfe and the Fox.
Fab. 35.
THe Wolfe, when he had enough prey, he lived in idlenesse, the Fox came unto him, and enquireth
Æsops fables, with the fables of Phaedrus moralized, translated verbatim, according to the Latine, for the use of grammar schooles, and for children ... / published by H.P.
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the cause of his idlenesse: The Wolfe perceived, that deceits were a making for his banquets, pre∣tendeth, that a disease was the cause of it, and intreateth the Fox, that she would go to pray unto the gods: She sorrowing that her subtiltie had no better successe, She goes to a Shepherd, & tels him, that the Dens of the Wolfe were openly known, for his enemy now carelesse might be oppressed unawares: the Shep∣herd runneth upon the Wolfe, kil∣leth him: The Fixon getteth the Den and the prey: yet she had but a short joy in her wickednesse: for not long after, the same Shepherd taketh her also.