The Tortoise and Hare. Fab. 57.
THe Tortoise and the Hare by chance did meet,
The nimble Hare derides the Tortoise feet,
Whereat the Tortoise mov'd, doth brave and dare
To run a course with this light footed Hare.
Dull pated, as slow footed, didst thou know
(Quoth wat) my speed, thou would st not dare me so,
But I accept the challenge, name the place,
And Judges who shall say, who wins the race;
Astutious Reynard of all brutes most cunning,
Was made the Judge of this new kind of running,
Who points the place, and doth for Justice sake
To view who wins the goale, sit at the stake.
The Tortoise laies all obstacles apart,
And makes her course with all her speed and art:
The Hare, who scorn'd her slownesse, by the way,
As foot-men use, did dance, and skip, and stay,
Meane time the slow pac'd Tortoise gathers ground,
And long before the Hare, at stake was found;
Which when the Hare perceiv'd, she did confesse,
The Tortoise wit outwent her nimblenesse,
The fabulist metamorphosed and mytholigized, or, The fables of Esop translated out of Latine into English verse, and moralized, by R.A. ...
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Page 53
Morall.
Hereby we see through industrie and braine,
How sleighted persons, great things may attaine,
And how the minde doth outward gifts out-run,
For what force never could, wisdome hath done.