Falles of pride.
244 Of a Flea and a Lyon.
THe Flea came to the Lyon and sayde: Nei∣ther feare I thée, neither arte thou stronger
A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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than I, but I pray thée what is thy strength? thou scratchest with thy nayles, and with thy téeth thou bytest, so doth a woman fyghting with hir husbande: but in strength I far excéede thée, and if thou wilt, let vs go fight. The Trumpet béeing blowen, the Flea stucke faste about hys nosethrils, byting: but the Lyon with his owne nayles tore him selfe till he was chafed: The Flea hauing ouercome the Lyon, sounded the Trumpet, and reioyced: but as he flewe away, he was entangled in a Cobwebbe: and béeing ready to be deuoured, he lamented that he stroue with the greatest Beastes, and nowe to be kilde by a vile Spider.
MOR. This Fable is agaynst those whiche vanquishe greate men, and are vanquished by meane persons.