A Fox and an Eagle. Fab. 28.
ALthough men are in high e∣state, notwithstanding they ought to feare to oppresse the lower sort, because revenge is manifest to the ingenious, by his industry. On a time an Eagle tooke up a Foxes Cubs, and laid them down in her neast to her young ones, that they might eate: the Mother Fox fol∣lowing her began to beseech her in∣stantly, that she would not bring so great calamitie upon her poore cai∣tifes: but she despised, because she was in a safe place: therefore the Fox tooke from the Altar a burning firebrand, and therewith she enviro∣ned the whole tree with flames, threatning griefe to her enemy, for the losse of her blood: the Eagle