Aesop's fables English and Latin : every one whereof is divided into its distinct periods, marked with figures : so that little children being used to write and translate them may not only more exactly understand all the rules of grammar but also learn to imitate the right composition of words and the proper forms of speech belonging to both languages / by Charles Hoole.

207. Of the Gnat and the Lyon.

1. A Gnat coming to a Lyon, said, I am neither afraid of thee, neither art thou stronger than I,

2. Dost thou think that I have less strength, because thou rendest with thy paws, and bitest with thy teeth?

3. This a woman can do, that fightethwith a man.

4. But I am far stronger than thee.

5. And, if thou wilt, let us come to the fight.

6. And when she had founded the Trumpet, the gnat stuck upon him, biting his smooth checks about his nostrils.

7. Now the Lion tore himself with his own paws, till he was vexed.

8. But the gnat, when she had overcome the Lyon, after she had sounded her Trumpet, and sung a song of triumph, flew away.

9. But when she was to be devoured, being entangled in a spider's web, she lamented, that she having fought with the strongest, should be killed by a Spi∣der, a mean kind of living Creature.

10. Mor. The faeble is against those, that vnaquish great ones, and are vanquished by little ones.

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