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Fables of Phaedrus - Phaedrus · Edgar Rice Burroughs Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Book one of the Fables of Fedris. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Linny The Fables of Fiedris by Fiedris, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Henry Thomas Riley, Book one, the prologue the matter
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  Speaker 1: which Egypt, the inventor of fables, has provided, I have
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  Speaker 1: polished in Iambic verse. The advantages of this little work
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  Speaker 1: are twofold, that it excites laughter, and by counsel guides
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  Speaker 1: the life of men. But if any one shall think
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  Speaker 1: fit to cavil, because not only wild beasts, but even
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  Speaker 1: trees speak, let him remember that we are disporting in
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  Speaker 1: Fables Fable one, the Wolf and the lamb, driven by thirst,
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  Speaker 1: A wolf and a lamb had come to the same stream.
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  Speaker 1: The wolf stood above, and the lamp at a distance below.
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  Speaker 1: Then the spoiler, prompted by a ravenous maw, alleged a
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  Speaker 1: pretext for a quarrel. Why said he, have you made
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  Speaker 1: the water muddy for me while I am drinking? The
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  Speaker 1: fleece bearer, trembling, answered, prithee wolf, how can I do
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  Speaker 1: what you complain of the water is flowing downwards from
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  Speaker 1: you to where I am drinking. The other, disconcerted by
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  Speaker 1: the force of truth, exclaimed, six months ago you slendered me, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: answered the lamp. I was not born, then by Hercules,
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  Speaker 1: said the wolf. Then twas your father slendered me, and
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  Speaker 1: so snatching him up, he tore him to pieces, killing
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  Speaker 1: him unjust. This fable is applicable to those men who,
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  Speaker 1: under false pretenses, oppressed the innocent. Fable two, the frogs
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  Speaker 1: asking for a king. When Athens was flourishing under just laws,
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  Speaker 1: liberty grown wanton and broiled the city, and license relaxed
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  Speaker 1: the reigns of ancient discipline. Upon this, the partisans of
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  Speaker 1: factions conspiring posistruous. The tyrant seized the citadel when the
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  Speaker 1: Athenians were lamenting their sad servitude. Not that he was cruel,
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  Speaker 1: but because every burden is grievous to those who are
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  Speaker 1: unused to it and began to complain. Isob related a
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  Speaker 1: fable to the following effect. The frogs roaming at large
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  Speaker 1: in their marshy fence with loud clamour demanded of Jupiter,
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  Speaker 1: a king who by his authority might check their dissolute manners.
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  Speaker 1: The father of the gods smiled and gave them a
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  Speaker 1: little log, which, on being thrown among them, startled the Timors,
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  Speaker 1: raised by the noise and sudden commotion in the bog,
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  Speaker 1: when it had lain for some time immersed in the mud,
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  Speaker 1: one of them, by chance silently lifted his head above
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  Speaker 1: the water, and, having taken a peep at the king,
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  Speaker 1: called up all the rest. Having got the better of
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  Speaker 1: their fears. Vining with each other, they swim towards him,
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  Speaker 1: and the insolent mob leaped upon the log. After defiling
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  Speaker 1: it with every kind of insult, they sent to Jupiter
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  Speaker 1: requesting another king, because the one that had been given
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  Speaker 1: them was useless. Upon this, he sent them a water snake, who,
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  Speaker 1: with his sharp teeth, began to gobble them up one
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  Speaker 1: after another. Helpless, they strive in vain to escape death.
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  Speaker 1: Terror deprives them of voice by stealth. Therefore they sent
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  Speaker 1: through Mercury a request to Jupiter to succor them in
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  Speaker 1: their distress. Then, said the god in reply, since you
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  Speaker 1: would not be content with your good fortune, continue to
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  Speaker 1: endure your bad fortune? Do you, also, o, fellow citizens,
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  Speaker 1: said Esop, submit to the present evil, lest a greater
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  Speaker 1: one befall you. Fable three, The vain jackdaw and the peacock.
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  Speaker 1: That one ought not to plume oneself on the merits
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  Speaker 1: which belonged to another, but ought rather to pass his
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  Speaker 1: life in his own proper guise. Eesop has given us
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  Speaker 1: this illustration. A jack doll, swelling with empty pride, picked
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  Speaker 1: up some feathers which had fallen from a peacock, and
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  Speaker 1: dacked himself out therewith upon which, despising his own kind,
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  Speaker 1: he mingled with a beauteous flock of peacocks. They tore
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  Speaker 1: his feathers from off the impudent bird, and put him
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  Speaker 1: to flight with their beaks. The jackdaw, thus roughly handled
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  Speaker 1: in grief, hastened to return to his own kind, repulsed
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  Speaker 1: by whom he had to submit to. Sad disgrace, then
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  Speaker 1: said one of those whom he had formerly despised. If
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  Speaker 1: you had been content with your station, and had been
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  Speaker 1: ready to put up with what nature had given, you
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  Speaker 1: would neither have experienced the former affront, nor would your
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  Speaker 1: ill fortune have had to feel the additional pang of
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  Speaker 1: this repulse. Fable four. The dog carrying some meat across
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  Speaker 1: a river, he who covets what belongs to another deservedly
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  Speaker 1: loses his own. As a dog swimming through a river
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  Speaker 1: was carrying a piece of meat, he saw his own
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  Speaker 1: shadow in the water mirror, and, thinking that it was
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  Speaker 1: another booty carried by another dog, attempted to snatch it away.
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  Speaker 1: But his greediness was disappointed. He both dropped the food
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  Speaker 1: which he was holding in his mouth, and was after
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  Speaker 1: all unable to reach that at which he grasped. Fable five.
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  Speaker 1: The cow, the she goat, the sheep, and the lion,
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  Speaker 1: and a lions with the powerful is never to be
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  Speaker 1: relied upon. The present fable testifies the truth of my maxim.
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  Speaker 1: A cow, a she goat, and a sheep, patient under injuries,
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  Speaker 1: were partners in the forests with a lion when they
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  Speaker 1: had captured a stag of veast bulk. Thus spoke the lion,
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  Speaker 1: after it had been divided into shares, because my name
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  Speaker 1: is Lion, I take the first. The second you will
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  Speaker 1: yield to me because I am courageous. Then, because I
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  Speaker 1: am the strongest, the third will fall to my lot.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone touches the fourth, woe betide him. Thus did
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  Speaker 1: unscrupulousness seize upon the whole prey for itself. Fable six.
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  Speaker 1: The frogs complained against the Sun up on seeing the
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  Speaker 1: pompous wedding of a thief who was his neighbor, immediately
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  Speaker 1: began to relate the following story. Once in a time,
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  Speaker 1: when the Sun was thinking of taking a wife, the
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  Speaker 1: frogs sent forth their clamor to the stars. Disturbed by
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  Speaker 1: their croakings, Jupiter asked the cause of their complaints. Them, said,
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  Speaker 1: one of the inhabitants of the pool, as it is
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  Speaker 1: by himself. He parches up all the standing waters and
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  Speaker 1: compels us unfortunates to languish and die in our scortch
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  Speaker 1: The bode what is to become of us if he
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  Speaker 1: beget children? Fable seven. The Fox and the Tragic Mask.
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  Speaker 1: A fox, by chance casting his eyes on a tragic mask,
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  Speaker 1: ah said, she great as is its beauty, still it
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  Speaker 1: has no brains. This is meant for those to whom
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  Speaker 1: fortune has granted honor and renown, leaving them void of
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  Speaker 1: common sense. Fable eight. The Wolf and the Crane. He
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  Speaker 1: who expects a recompense for his services from the dishonest
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  Speaker 1: commits a twofold mistake. First, because he assists the undeserving,
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  Speaker 1: and in the next place, because he cannot be gone
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  Speaker 1: while he is yet safe. A bone that he had
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  Speaker 1: swallowed stuck in the jaws of a wolf. Thereupon, overcome
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  Speaker 1: by extreme pain, he began to tempt all and sundry
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  Speaker 1: by great rewards to extract the cause of misery. At length,
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  Speaker 1: on his taking an oath, a crane was prevailed on,
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  Speaker 1: and trusting the length of her neck to his throat,
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  Speaker 1: she wrought, with danger to herself a cure for the wolf.
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  Speaker 1: When she demanded the promised reward for this service, You
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  Speaker 1: are an ungrateful one, replied the wolf, to have taken
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  Speaker 1: your head in safety out of my mouth, and then
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  Speaker 1: to ask for a reward. Fable nine. The sparrow and
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  Speaker 1: the hair. Let us show in a few lines that
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  Speaker 1: it is unwise to be heedless of ourselves while we
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  Speaker 1: are giving advice to others. A sparrow upbraided a hair
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  Speaker 1: that had been pounced upon by an eagle, and was
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  Speaker 1: setting forth piercing cries. Where now said, he is that
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  Speaker 1: fleetness for which you are so remarkable? Why were your
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  Speaker 1: feet thus tardy? While he was speaking, a hawk seizes
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  Speaker 1: him unawared and kills him shrieking aloud with vain complaints,
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  Speaker 1: the hair almost dead. As a consolation. In his agony, exclaimed, you,
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  Speaker 1: who so lately free from care, were ridiculing my misfortunes,
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  Speaker 1: have now to deplore your own fate with as woeful
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  Speaker 1: a cause. Fable ten, The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever has once become notorious by Bay's fraud, even if
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  Speaker 1: he speaks the truth, gains no belief to this A
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  Speaker 1: short fable of isab Bear's witness. A wolf indicted a
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  Speaker 1: fox upon a charge of theft. The letter denied that
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  Speaker 1: she was amenable to the charge. Upon this the ape
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  Speaker 1: sat as judge between them, and when each of them
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  Speaker 1: had pleaded his cause, the ape is said to have
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  Speaker 1: pronounced this sentence, You wolf appear not to have lost
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  Speaker 1: what you demand. I believe that you fox have stolen
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  Speaker 1: what you so speciously deny. Fable eleven. The Ass and
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  Speaker 1: the Lion hunting. A dastard who in his talk brags
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  Speaker 1: of his prowess and is devoid of courage, imposes upon strangers,
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  Speaker 1: but is the jest of all who know him. A lion,
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  Speaker 1: having resolved to hunt in company with an ass, concealed
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  Speaker 1: him in a thicket, and at the same time enjoined
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  Speaker 1: him to frighten the wild beasts with his voice, to
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  Speaker 1: which they were unused, while he himself was to catch
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  Speaker 1: them as they fled upon this long ears, with all
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  Speaker 1: his might, suddenly raised the cry and terrified the beasts
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  Speaker 1: with this new cause of astonishment. While in their alarm
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  Speaker 1: they are flying eying to the well known outlets, they
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  Speaker 1: are overpowered by the dread onset of the lion, who,
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  Speaker 1: after he was wearied with slaughter, called forth the ass
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  Speaker 1: from his retreat and bade him seize his clamor. On
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  Speaker 1: this the other, in his insolence, inquired, what think you
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  Speaker 1: of the assistance given by my voice? Excellent, said the lion,
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  Speaker 1: so much so that if I had not been acquainted
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  Speaker 1: with your spirit and your race, I should have fled
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  Speaker 1: in alarm like the rest Fable twelve, The Stag at
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  Speaker 1: the stream. This story shows that what you contemn is
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  Speaker 1: often found of more utility than what you lolled with praises.
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  Speaker 1: A stag, when he had drunk at a stream, stood
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  Speaker 1: still and gazed upon his likeness in the water. While
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  Speaker 1: there in admiration, he was praising his branching horns and
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  Speaker 1: finding fault with the extreme thinness of his legs. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: roused by the cries of the huntsman, he took to
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  Speaker 1: flight over the plain, and with nimble cores, escaped the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Then a wood received the beast, in which, being entangled
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  Speaker 1: and caught by his horns, the dogs began to tear
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  Speaker 1: him to pieces with savage bites. While dying, he is
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  Speaker 1: said to have uttered these words, Oh, how unhappy am I,
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  Speaker 1: who now too late find out how useful to me
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  Speaker 1: were the things that I despised, And what sorrow the
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  Speaker 1: things I used to praise have caused me. Fable thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: The Fox and the raven. He who was delighted at
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  Speaker 1: being flattered with artful words generally pays the ignominious penalty
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  Speaker 1: of a late repentance. As a raven, perched in a
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  Speaker 1: lofty tree, was about to eat a piece of cheese
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  Speaker 1: stolen from a window, a fox espied him, and thereupon
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  Speaker 1: began thus to speak, O, raven, what a glossiness there
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  Speaker 1: is upon those feathers of yours? What grace you carry
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  Speaker 1: in your shape and air? If you had a voice,
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  Speaker 1: no bird whatever would be superior to you on this
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  Speaker 1: The other while in his folly, attempting to show off
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  Speaker 1: his voice, let fall the cheese from his mouth, which
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  Speaker 1: the crafty fox with greedy teeth instantly snatched up. Then
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  Speaker 1: too late the raven, thus, in his stupidity, overreached, heaved
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  Speaker 1: a bitter sigh. By this story it is shown how
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  Speaker 1: much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch
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  Speaker 1: for strength. Fable fourteen. The cobbler turned physician. A bungling cobbler,
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  Speaker 1: broken down by want, having begun to practice physic in
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  Speaker 1: a strange place and selling his antidote under a faint name,
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  Speaker 1: gained some reputation for himself by his delusive speeches. Upon this,
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  Speaker 1: the king of the city, who lay ill, being afflicted
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  Speaker 1: with a severe malady, asked for a cup for the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of trying him, and then pouring water into it
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  Speaker 1: and pretending that he was mixing poison with the fellow's antidote,
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  Speaker 1: ordered him to drink it off in consideration of a
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  Speaker 1: stated reward through fear of death. The cobbler then confessed
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  Speaker 1: that not by any skill in the medical art, but
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  Speaker 1: through the stupidity of the public, he had gained his reputation.
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  Speaker 1: The king, having summoned a council thus remarked, what think
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  Speaker 1: you of the extent of your madness when you do
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  Speaker 1: not hesitate to trust your lives to one to whom
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  Speaker 1: no one would trust his feet to be fitted with shoes. This,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, with good reason, is aimed at those
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  Speaker 1: through whose folly impudence makes a profit. Fable fifteen The
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  Speaker 1: ass and the old shepherd. In a change of government,
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  Speaker 1: the poor changed nothing beyond the name of their master.
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  Speaker 1: That this is the fact. This little fable shows a
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  Speaker 1: timorous old man was feeding an ass in a meadow.
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  Speaker 1: Frightened by a sudden alarm of the enemy. He tried
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  Speaker 1: to persuade the ask to fly lest they should be
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  Speaker 1: taken prisoners. But he leisuredly replied, pray, do you suppose
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  Speaker 1: that the conquerer will place double penniers upon me? The
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  Speaker 1: old man said, no, then what matters it to me,
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  Speaker 1: so long as I have to carry my panniers whom
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  Speaker 1: I serve. Fable sixteen, The Stag, the sheep and the wolf.
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  Speaker 1: When a rogue offers his name a surety in a
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  Speaker 1: doubtful case, he has no design to act straightforwardly, but
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  Speaker 1: is looking to mischief. A stag asked the sheep for
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  Speaker 1: a measure of wheat, a wolf being his surety. The other, however,
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  Speaker 1: suspecting fraud, replied, the wolf has always been in the
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  Speaker 1: habit of plundering and absconding you, of rushing out of
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  Speaker 1: sight with rapid flight. Where am I to look for
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  Speaker 1: you both when the day comes Fable seventeen. The sheep,
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  Speaker 1: the dog, and the wolf liars generally pay the penalty
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  Speaker 1: of their guilt. A dog who was a false accuser,
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  Speaker 1: having demanded of a sheep a loaf of bread, which
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  Speaker 1: he affirmed he had entrusted to her charge. A wolf,
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  Speaker 1: summoned as a witness, affirmed that not only one was owing,
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  Speaker 1: but ten condemned on false testimony. The sheep had to
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  Speaker 1: pay what she did not owe. A few days after,
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  Speaker 1: the sheep saw the wolf lying in a pit. This said,
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  Speaker 1: she is the reward of villainy sent by the gods.
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  Speaker 1: Fable eighteen. The woman in labor no one returns with
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  Speaker 1: good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
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  Speaker 1: Her months completed, a woman in labor lay upon the ground,
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  Speaker 1: uttering woeful moans. Her husband entreated her to lay her
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  Speaker 1: body on the bed, where she might with more ease
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  Speaker 1: deposit her ripe burden. I feel far from confident, said she,
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  Speaker 1: that my pains can end in the place where they originated.
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  Speaker 1: Fable nineteen. The Bitch and her whelps. The fair words
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  Speaker 1: of a wicked man are fraught with treachery, and the
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  Speaker 1: subjoined lines warn us to shun them. A bitch ready
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  Speaker 1: to welp, having entreated another that she might give birth
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  Speaker 1: to her offspring in her kennel, easily obtained the favor. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: on the other asked for her place back again. She
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  Speaker 1: renewed her entreaties earnestly, begging for a short time until
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  Speaker 1: she might be enabled to lead forth her whelps when
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  Speaker 1: they had gained sufficient strength. This time being also expired,
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  Speaker 1: the other began more urgently to press for her abode. If,
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  Speaker 1: said the tenant, you can be a match for me
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  Speaker 1: and my litter, I will depart from the place. Fable twenty.
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  Speaker 1: The hungry Dogs an ill judged project is not only
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  Speaker 1: without effect, but also lures mortals to their destruction. Some
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  Speaker 1: dogs espied a raw hide sunk in a river, in
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  Speaker 1: order that they might more easily get it out and
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  Speaker 1: devour it. They fell to drinking up the water. They
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  Speaker 1: burst however, and perished before they could reach what they sought.
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  Speaker 1: Fable twenty one. The aged lion, the wild boar, the bull,
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  Speaker 1: and the whoever has fallen from a previous high estate
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  Speaker 1: is in his calamity the butt even of cowards. As
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  Speaker 1: a lion, worn out with years and deserted by his strength,
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  Speaker 1: lay drawing his lest breath, a wild boar came up
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  Speaker 1: to him with flashing tusks, and with a blow revenged
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  Speaker 1: and old affront Next with hostile horns, a bull pierced
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  Speaker 1: the body of his foe, and, as on seeing the
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  Speaker 1: wild beast small treated with impunity, tore up his forehead
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  Speaker 1: with his heels. On this expiring, he said, I have
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  Speaker 1: borne with indignation the insults of the brave, But in
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  Speaker 1: being inevitably forced to bear with you disgrace to nature,
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  Speaker 1: I seem to die a double death. Fable twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: The Men and the Weasel. A weasel, on being caught
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  Speaker 1: by a man, wishing to escape impending death, pray said,
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  Speaker 1: she do spare me, for tis I who keep your
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  Speaker 1: house clear of troublesome mice. The man made answer, if
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  Speaker 1: you did so for my sake, it would be a
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  Speaker 1: reason for thanking you, and I should have granted you
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  Speaker 1: the pardon you entreat. But inasmuch as you do your best,
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  Speaker 1: that you may enjoy the scraps which they would have
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  Speaker 1: gnawed and devoured the mice as well, don't think of
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  Speaker 1: placing your pretended services to my account, And so saying,
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  Speaker 1: he put the wicked creature to death. Those persons ought
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  Speaker 1: to recognize this as applicable to themselves, whose object is
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  Speaker 1: private advantage, and who bowst to the unthinking of an
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  Speaker 1: unreal merit. Fable twenty three. The faithful Dog. The man
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  Speaker 1: who becomes liberal all of a sudden ratifies the foolish,
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  Speaker 1: but for the weary spreads his toils in vain. A
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  Speaker 1: thief one night threw a crust of bread to a
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  Speaker 1: dog to try whether he could be gained by the
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  Speaker 1: preferred victuals hark, You said, the dog. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: to stop my tongue so that I may not bark
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  Speaker 1: for my master's property? You are greatly mistaken, for this
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  Speaker 1: sudden liberality bids me be on the watch that you
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  Speaker 1: may not profit by my neglect. Fable twenty four The
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  Speaker 1: frog and the Ox. The needy man, while affecting to
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  Speaker 1: imitate the powerful comes to ruin. Once on a time,
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  Speaker 1: a frog espied an ox in a meadow, and moved
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  Speaker 1: with envy at his vast bulk. Puffed out with her
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  Speaker 1: wrinkled skin, and then asked her young ones whether she
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  Speaker 1: was bigger than the ox. They said no. Again, with
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  Speaker 1: still great efforts, she distended her skin, and in like manner,
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  Speaker 1: inquired which was the bigger, They said the ox. At last,
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  Speaker 1: while full of indignation, she tried with all her might
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  Speaker 1: to puff herself out. She burst her body on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: Fable twenty five. The dog and the crocodile. Those who
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  Speaker 1: give bad advice to discreet persons both lose their pains
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  Speaker 1: and are left to scorn. It has been related that
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  Speaker 1: dogs drink at the river nile running along, that they
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  Speaker 1: may not be seized by the crocodiles. Accordingly, a dog,
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  Speaker 1: having begun to drink while running along, a crocodile thus
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  Speaker 1: addressed him, lap as leisurely as you like, drink on,
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  Speaker 1: come nearer, and don't be afraid, said he. The other replied, egad,
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  Speaker 1: I would do so with all my heart. Did I
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  Speaker 1: not know that you are eager for my flesh? Fable
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  Speaker 1: twenty six The fox and the stork. Harms should be
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  Speaker 1: done to no man, But if any one do an injury,
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  Speaker 1: this fable shows that he may be visited with a
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  Speaker 1: like return. A fox is said to have given a
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  Speaker 1: stork the first invitation to a banquet, and to have
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  Speaker 1: placed before her some thin broth in a flat dish,
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  Speaker 1: of which the hungry store could in no way get
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  Speaker 1: a taste. Having invited the fox, in return, she sat
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  Speaker 1: before him a narrow mouthed jar full of minced meat, and,
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  Speaker 1: thrusting her beak into it, satisfied herself, while she tormented
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  Speaker 1: her guest with hunger, who, after having in vain, licked
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  Speaker 1: the neck of the jar. As we have heard thus
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  Speaker 1: addressed the foreign bird. Every one is bound to bear
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  Speaker 1: patiently the results of his own example. Fable twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The Dog, the treasure and the vulture. This fable may
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  Speaker 1: be applied to the avaricious and to those who born
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  Speaker 1: to a humble lot, a fact to be called rich
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  Speaker 1: grubbing up human bones. A dog met with a treasure,
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  Speaker 1: and because he had offended the gods the manes, a
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  Speaker 1: desire for riches was inspired in him, that so he
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  Speaker 1: might pay the penalty due to the holy character of
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  Speaker 1: the place. Accordingly, while he was watching over the gold,
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  Speaker 1: forgetful of food, he was starved to death, on which
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  Speaker 1: a vulture standing over him is reported to have said, O, dog,
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  Speaker 1: you justly meet your death. Who begotten at a cross
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  Speaker 1: road and bred up on a dunghill have suddenly coveted
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  Speaker 1: regal wealth Fable twenty eight. The fox and the eagle men, however,
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  Speaker 1: high in station, ought to be on their guard against
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  Speaker 1: the lolly, because to ready address revenge lies near at hand.
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  Speaker 1: An eagle one day carried off the whelps of a
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  Speaker 1: fox and placed them in her nest before her young ones,
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  Speaker 1: for them to tear in pieces as food. The mother,
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  Speaker 1: following her, began to entreat that she would not cause
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  Speaker 1: such sorrow to her miserable suppliant. The other despised her
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  Speaker 1: as being safe in the very situation of the spot.
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  Speaker 1: The fox snatched from an altar a burning torch and
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  Speaker 1: surrounded the whole tree with flames, intending to mingle anguish
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  Speaker 1: to her foe with the loss of her offspring. The eagle,
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  Speaker 1: that she might rescue her young ones from the peril
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  Speaker 1: of death in a suppliant manner. Restored to the fox
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  Speaker 1: her whelps in safety. Fable twenty nine. The as the
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  Speaker 1: riding the bull fools, often, while trying to raise a
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  Speaker 1: silly laugh, provoke others by growths of france, and cause
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  Speaker 1: serious danger to themselves. An s meeting a boar, good
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  Speaker 1: morrow to you, brother, says he. The other indignantly rejects
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  Speaker 1: the salutation and inquires why he thinks proper to utter
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  Speaker 1: such an untruth. The s, with legs scrouching down, replies,
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  Speaker 1: if you deny that you are like me at all events,
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  Speaker 1: I have something very like your snout. The boar, just
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  Speaker 1: on the point of making a fierce attack, suppressed his
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  Speaker 1: rage and said revenge were easy for me, but I
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  Speaker 1: decline to be defiled with such dastardly blood. Fable thirty.
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  Speaker 1: The frogs frightened at the battle of the bulls. When
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  Speaker 1: the powerful are at variance, the lowly are the sufferers.
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  Speaker 1: A frog, viewing from a marsh a combat of some bulls,
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  Speaker 1: alas said she, what terrible destruction is threatening us? Being
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  Speaker 1: asked by another, why, she said so. As the bulls
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  Speaker 1: were contending for the sovereignty of the herd and passed
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  Speaker 1: their lives afar from them, their habitation is at a distance,
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  Speaker 1: said she, And they are of a different kind. Still,
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  Speaker 1: he who is expelled from the sovereignty of the metal
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  Speaker 1: will take to flight and come to the secret hiding
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  Speaker 1: places in the fence and tremple and crush us with
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  Speaker 1: his hard hoof. Thus does their fury concern our safety?
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  Speaker 1: Fable thirty one, The Kite and the Pigeons. He who
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  Speaker 1: intrusts himself to the protection of a wicked man, while
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  Speaker 1: his seeks assistance, meets with destruction. Some pigeons, having often
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  Speaker 1: escaped from a kite, and by their swiftness of waning,
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  Speaker 1: avoided death. The spoiler had re course to stratagem, and
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  Speaker 1: by a crafted device of this nature, deceived the harmless race.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you prefer to live a life of anxiety
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  Speaker 1: rather than concluded treaty? And make me your king, who
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  Speaker 1: can insure your safety from every injury? They, putting confidence
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  Speaker 1: in him, entrusted themselves to the kite, who, on obtaining
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  Speaker 1: the sovereignty, began to devour them one by one, and
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  Speaker 1: to exercise authority with his cruel talents. Then said one
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  Speaker 1: of those that were left deservedly are with smitten end
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  Speaker 1: of Book one, Book two of the Fables of Fiedris.
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  Speaker 1: This Celebrivox recording is in the public domain recording Bylini
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  Speaker 1: The Fables of Fiedris by Fiedris, translated by Harry Thomas Riley,
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  Speaker 1: Book two. The prolog the Plan of Egypt is confined
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  Speaker 1: to instruction by examples nor by fables. Is anything else
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  Speaker 1: aimed at than that the errors of mortals may be
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  Speaker 1: corrected and persevering industry exert itself. Whatever the playful invention
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  Speaker 1: therefore of the narrator, so long as it pleases the
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  Speaker 1: ear and answers its purpose, it is recommended by its merits,
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  Speaker 1: not by the author's name. For my part, I will
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  Speaker 1: with all care follow the method of the sage. But
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  Speaker 1: if I should think fit to insert something of my own,
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  Speaker 1: that variety of subjects may gratify the taste. I trust reader,
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  Speaker 1: you will take it in good part, provided that my
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  Speaker 1: brevity be a fair return for such a favor of
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  Speaker 1: which that my praises may not be verbals. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: the reason why you ought to deny the covetous, and
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  Speaker 1: even to offer to the modest that for which they
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  Speaker 1: have not asked. Fable one, the Lion, the robber, and
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  Speaker 1: the traveler. While a lion was standing over a bullock
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  Speaker 1: which he had brought to the ground. A robber came
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  Speaker 1: up and demanded a share. I would give it, you,
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  Speaker 1: said the lion, were you not in the habit of
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  Speaker 1: taking without leave, and so repulsed the rogue. By chance,
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  Speaker 1: a harmless traveler was led to the same spot, and,
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  Speaker 1: on seeing the wild beast, retraced his steps, on which
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  Speaker 1: the lion kindly said to him, you have nothing to fear.
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  Speaker 1: Boldly take the share, which is due to your modesty. Then,
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  Speaker 1: having divided the carcass, he sought the woods that he
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  Speaker 1: might make room for the man. A very excellent example
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  Speaker 1: and worthy of all praise. But covetousness is rich and modesty.
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  Speaker 1: In one fable two, the two women of different ages
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  Speaker 1: below by the middle aged men, that the men under
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  Speaker 1: all circumstances are preyed upon by the women, whether they
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  Speaker 1: loved or are beloved. This truly we learn from examples.
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  Speaker 1: A woman not devoid of grace, held enthralled a certain
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  Speaker 1: man of middle age, concealing her ears by the arts
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  Speaker 1: of the toilet. A lovely young creature, too, had captivated
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the same person, both as they were
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  Speaker 1: desirous to appear of the same age with him, began
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  Speaker 1: each in her turn to pluck out the hair of
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  Speaker 1: the man. While he imagined that he was made trim
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  Speaker 1: by the care of the women, he suddenly found himself bald,
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  Speaker 1: for the young woman had entirely pulled out the white
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  Speaker 1: hairs the old woman the black ones. Fable three. The
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  Speaker 1: Men and the Dog. A man torn by the bite
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  Speaker 1: of a savage dog threw a piece of bread dipped
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  Speaker 1: in his blood to the offender. The thing that he
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  Speaker 1: had heard was a remedy for the wound, then said Eza.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do this before many dogs, lest they devour us alive.
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  Speaker 1: When they know that such is the reward of guilt.
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  Speaker 1: The success of the wicked is a temptation to many.
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  Speaker 1: Fable four. The Eagle, the Cat and the wild sow.
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  Speaker 1: An eagle had made her nest at the top of
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  Speaker 1: an oak. A cat, who had found a hole in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, had kittened there. A sow, a dweller in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, had laid her offspring at the bottom. Then
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  Speaker 1: thus does the cat with the seat and wicked malice
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  Speaker 1: destroy the community so form by accident she mounts up
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  Speaker 1: to the nest of the bird destruction. Said she is
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  Speaker 1: preparing for you perhaps two wretched me. For as you see,
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  Speaker 1: the sow digging up the earth every day, is insidiously
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  Speaker 1: trying to overthrow the oak that she may easily seize
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  Speaker 1: her progeny on the ground. Having thus spread terror and
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  Speaker 1: bewildered the eagle's senses, the cat creeps down to the
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  Speaker 1: lair of the bristly cell in great danger, says she
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  Speaker 1: are your offspring, For as soon as you go out
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  Speaker 1: to forage with your young litter, the eagle is ready
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  Speaker 1: to snatch away from you your little pigs. Having filled
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  Speaker 1: this place likewise with alarm, she cunningly hides herself in
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  Speaker 1: her safe hole. Thence she wanders forth on tiptoe by night,
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  Speaker 1: and having filled herself and her offspring with food, she
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  Speaker 1: looks out all day long, pretending alarm. Fearing the downfall,
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  Speaker 1: the eagle sits still in the branches to avoid the
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  Speaker 1: attack of the spoiler. The sow stirs not abroad. Why
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  Speaker 1: make a long story, They perished through hunger with their
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  Speaker 1: young ones, and afforded the cat in her kittens and
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  Speaker 1: ample repast. Silly credulity may take this as a proof
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  Speaker 1: how much evil a double tongued man may often contrive.
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  Speaker 1: Fable five Caesar to the Chamberlain, there is a certain
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  Speaker 1: set of busy bodies at Rome, hurriedly running to and
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  Speaker 1: fro busily, engaged in idleness, out of breath, about nothing
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  Speaker 1: at all, with much ado, doing nothing trouble to themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and most annoying to others. It is my object, by
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  Speaker 1: a true story, to reform this race, if indeed I can,
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  Speaker 1: It is worth your while to attend Tiberius Caesar, when
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  Speaker 1: on his way to Naples, came to his country seat
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  Speaker 1: at miss Annem, which, placed by the hand of Lycalus,
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  Speaker 1: on the summit of the heights, beholds the Sicilian Sea
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, and that of a Truria close at hand.
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  Speaker 1: One of the highly gird chamberlains, whose tunic of Pelusian
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  Speaker 1: linen was nicely smoothed from his shoulders downwards with hanging fringes,
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  Speaker 1: while his master was walking through the pleasant shrubberies, began
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  Speaker 1: with bustling officiousness to sprinkle the parched ground with a
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  Speaker 1: wooden watering pot, but only got left at thence by
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  Speaker 1: short cuts to him well known, he runs before into
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  Speaker 1: another walk laying the dust. Caesar takes notice of the
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  Speaker 1: fellow and discerns his object, just as he is, supposing
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  Speaker 1: that there is some extraordinary good fortune in store for him,
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  Speaker 1: Come hither, says his master, on which he skips up
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  Speaker 1: to him, quickened by the joyous hope of a sure reward. Then,
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  Speaker 1: in a jesting tone, thus spoke the Mighty Majesty of
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  Speaker 1: the Prince. You have not profited much. Your labor is
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  Speaker 1: all in vain. Many mission stands at a much higher
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  Speaker 1: price with me. Fable six, The eagle, the crow, and
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  Speaker 1: the tortoise. No one is sufficiently armed against the powerful,
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  Speaker 1: But if a wicked adviser joins them, nothing can withstand
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  Speaker 1: such a combination of violence and unscrupulousness. An eagle carried
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  Speaker 1: the tortoise aloft, who had hidden her body in her
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  Speaker 1: horny abode and in her concealment, could not, while thus sheltered,
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  Speaker 1: be injured in any way. The crow came through the air, and,
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  Speaker 1: flying near, exclaimed, you really have carried off a rich
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  Speaker 1: prize in your talons. But if I don't instruct you
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  Speaker 1: what you must do in vain, will you tire yourself
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  Speaker 1: with the heavy weight a share being promised her. She
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  Speaker 1: persuades the eagle to dash the hard shell from the
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  Speaker 1: lofty stars upon a rock, that it being broken to pieces,
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  Speaker 1: she may easily feed upon the meat. Induced by her words,
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  Speaker 1: the eagle attends to her suggestion, and at the same
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  Speaker 1: time gives a large share of the banquet to her instructress. Thus, she,
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  Speaker 1: who had been protected by the bounty of nature, being
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  Speaker 1: an unequal match for the two, perished by an unhappy fade.
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  Speaker 1: Fable seven, The mules and the rubbers, laden with burdens.
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  Speaker 1: Two mules were traveling along. The one was carrying baskets
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  Speaker 1: with money, the other sex distended with store of barley.
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  Speaker 1: The former, rich with his burden, goes exulting along with
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  Speaker 1: mac erect and tossing to and fro upon his throat
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  Speaker 1: his clear toned bell. His companion follows with quiet and
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  Speaker 1: easy step. Suddenly, some robbers rush from ambush upon them,
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  Speaker 1: and a mid the slaughter piers the mule with a
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  Speaker 1: sword and carry off the money. The valueless barley they neglect,
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  Speaker 1: while then the one despoiled was bewailing their mishaps. For
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  Speaker 1: my part, says the other, I am glad I was
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  Speaker 1: thought so little of, for I have lost nothing, nor
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  Speaker 1: have I received hurt by a wound. According to the
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  Speaker 1: morrow of this fable, poverty is safe, great riches are
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  Speaker 1: liable to danger. Fable eight, The Stag and the Oxen.
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  Speaker 1: A stag aroused from his woodland lair to avoid impending death.
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  Speaker 1: Threatened by huntsmen, repaired with blind fear to the nearest
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  Speaker 1: farmhouse and hid himself in an oxtall close at hand.
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  Speaker 1: Upon this, an ox said to him, as he concealed himself,
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  Speaker 1: why what do you mean, unhappy one in thus rushing
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  Speaker 1: of your own accord upon destruction and trusting your life
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  Speaker 1: to the abode of men. To this, he suppliantly replied,
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  Speaker 1: do you only spare me? The moment an opportunity is given,
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  Speaker 1: I will again rush forth. Night, in her turn, takes
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  Speaker 1: the place of day. The neat herd brings fodder, but
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  Speaker 1: yet sees him. Not. All the farm servants pass and
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  Speaker 1: repass every now and then. No one perceives him. Even
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  Speaker 1: the steward passes by, nor does he observe anything. Upon this,
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  Speaker 1: the stag, in his joy, began to return, thanks to
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  Speaker 1: the oxen, who had kept so still because they had
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  Speaker 1: afforded him hospitality in the hour of adversity. One of
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  Speaker 1: them made answer, we really do wish you well, but
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  Speaker 1: if he who has a hundred eyes should come, your
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  Speaker 1: life will be placed in great peril. In the meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the Master himself comes back from dinner, and, having lately
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  Speaker 1: seen the oxen in bad condition, comes up to the rack. Why,
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  Speaker 1: says he is there so little fodder? Is litter scarce?
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  Speaker 1: What great trouble is it to remove those spiders webs?
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  Speaker 1: While he is sprying into every corner, he perceives too
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  Speaker 1: the branching horns of the stag, and having summoned the household,
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  Speaker 1: he orders him to be killed and carries off the prize.
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  Speaker 1: This fable signifies that the Master sees better than anyone
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  Speaker 1: else in his own affairs. The epilog, the Athenians erected
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  Speaker 1: a statue to the genius of Eip and placed him,
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  Speaker 1: though a slave, upon an everlasting pedestal, that all might
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  Speaker 1: know that the way to fame is open to all,
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  Speaker 1: and that glory is not awarded to birth, but to merit.
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  Speaker 1: Since another has prevented me from being the first, I
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  Speaker 1: have made it my object, a thing which still lay
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  Speaker 1: in my power, that he should not be the only one.
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  Speaker 1: Nor is this envy but emulation. And if Lasciam shall
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  Speaker 1: face ever my efforts, she will have still more authors
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  Speaker 1: whom she may match with Greece. But if jealousy shall
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  Speaker 1: attempt to detract from my labors, still it shall not
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  Speaker 1: deprive me of the consciousness of deserving praise. If my
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  Speaker 1: attempts reach your ears, and your taste relishes these fables
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  Speaker 1: as being composed with skill, my success then banishes every complaint.
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  Speaker 1: But if on the contrary, my learned labors fall into
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  Speaker 1: the hands of those whom a perverse nature has brought
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  Speaker 1: to the light of day, and who are unable to
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  Speaker 1: do anything except caarb at their betters, I shall endure
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  Speaker 1: my unhappy destiny with strength of mind, until fortune is
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of her own injustice. End of book two, Book
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  Speaker 1: three of the Fables of Fidis. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Warding by Lenny The Fables of
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  Speaker 1: Fiedris by Fiedris, translated by Henry Thomas Riley, Book three,
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  Speaker 1: The prolog to Eltichus. If you have a desire Iltichus
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  Speaker 1: to read the little Books of Pedris, you must keep
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  Speaker 1: yourself disengaged from business that your mind at liberty may
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  Speaker 1: relish the meaning of the lines. But you say, my
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  Speaker 1: genius is not of such great value that a moment
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  Speaker 1: of time should be lost for it to my own pursuits.
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  Speaker 1: There is no reason, then, why that should be touched
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  Speaker 1: by your hands, which is not suited for years so engaged.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you will say, some holidays will come which will
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: invite me to study with mind unbent? Will you rather,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I ask you, read worthless ditties than bestow attention upon
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: your domestic concerns. Give moments to your friends, your leisure
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  Speaker 1: to your wife, Relax your mind, and refresh your body,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: in order that you may return more efficiently to your
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: wonted duties. You must change your purpose and your mode
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  Speaker 1: of life if you have thoughts of crossing the threshold
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  Speaker 1: of the muses, I whom my mother brought forth on
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  Speaker 1: the Piyrian hill, upon which hallob Nemosine nine times fruitful
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  Speaker 1: bore the choir of muses to thundering Jove. Although I
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  Speaker 1: was born almost in the very school itself, and have
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  Speaker 1: entirely erased all care for acquiring wealth from my breast,
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  Speaker 1: and with the approval of many, have applied myself to
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  Speaker 1: these pursuits, am still, with difficulty received into the choir
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  Speaker 1: of the poets. What do you imagine must be the
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  Speaker 1: lot of him who seeks with ceaseless vigilance to amass
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  Speaker 1: great wealth, preferring the sweets of gain to the labors
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: of learning. But now come of it, what may as
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Sinans said when he was brought before the King of Dardania,
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  Speaker 1: I will trace a third book with the pen of
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  Speaker 1: Esip and dedicate it to you, in acknowledgment of your
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  Speaker 1: honor and your goodness. If you read it, I shall rejoice.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: But if otherwise, at least posterity will have something with
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: which to amuse themselves. Now will I explain in a
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  Speaker 1: few words why fabulous narrative was invented slavery subject to
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: the will of another, because it did not dare to
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: say what it wished, couched its sentiments in fables, and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: by pleasing fictions, eluded censure in place of its footpath.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I have made a road, and have invented more than
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: it left, selecting some points to my own misfortune. But
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: if any other than Sijana's had been the informer, if
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: any other the witness, if any other the judge in
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: fine I should confess myself deserving of such severe woes,
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  Speaker 1: nor should I soothe my sorrow with these expedients. If
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  Speaker 1: any one shall make erroneous surmises and apply to himself
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  Speaker 1: what is applicable to all in common, he will absurdly
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  Speaker 1: expose the secret convictions of his mind. And still to
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  Speaker 1: him I would hold myself excused, for it is no
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  Speaker 1: intention of mine to point at individuals, but to describe
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  Speaker 1: life itself and the manners of mankind. Perhaps some one
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  Speaker 1: will say that I undertake a weighted task. If eesop
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  Speaker 1: of Phrygia, if anarchasis of Scythia could, by their genius
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  Speaker 1: found a lesson fame, why should I, whom am more
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  Speaker 1: nearly related to learn Greece, forsake in sluggish indolence the
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  Speaker 1: glories of my country, especially as the Thracian race numbers
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  Speaker 1: its own authors. And Apollo was the parent of Linus,
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  Speaker 1: a muse of Orpheus, who with his song moved rock
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  Speaker 1: and tamed wild beasts, and held the current of Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: in sweet suspense away, then envy nor lament in vain,
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  Speaker 1: because to me the customary fane is due. I have
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  Speaker 1: urged you to read these lines I beg that you
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  Speaker 1: will give me your sincere opinion of them, with your
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  Speaker 1: well known candor. Fable one the old Woman and the Cask.
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  Speaker 1: An old woman espied a cask which had been drained
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  Speaker 1: to the dregs lying on the ground, and which still
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  Speaker 1: spread forth from its ennobled shell, a delightful smell of
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the fellernian leaves, after she had greedily snuffed it up
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  Speaker 1: her nostrils with all her might. Oh delicious fragrance, said she,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: How good I should say, were your former contents when
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the remains of them are such? What this refers to?
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Let him say, who knows me? Fable too, The Panther
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  Speaker 1: and the shepherd. Repayment and kind is generally made by
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  Speaker 1: those who are despised. A panther had once inadvertently fallen
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  Speaker 1: into a pit. The rustics saw her. Some belabored her
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  Speaker 1: with sticks, others spelted her with stones, while some, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, moved with compassion, seeing that she must die,
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  Speaker 1: even though no one should hurt her. Through her some
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  Speaker 1: bread to sustain existence. Night comes on a pace homeward
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  Speaker 1: they go without concern, making sure of finding her dead
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  Speaker 1: on the following day. She, however, after having recruited her
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  Speaker 1: failing strength, with a swift bound effected her escape from
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  Speaker 1: the pit, and with hurried pace, hastened to her den.
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  Speaker 1: A few days intervening, she sallies forth, slaughters the flo
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  Speaker 1: kills the shepherds themselves, and laying waste every side, rages
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  Speaker 1: with unbridled fury upon this. Those who had shown mercy
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  Speaker 1: to the beast, alarmed for their safety, made no the
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  Speaker 1: mur to the loss of their flocks, and begged only
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  Speaker 1: for their lives. But she thus answered them, I remember
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  Speaker 1: him who attacked me with stones, and him who gave
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  Speaker 1: me bread. Lay aside your fears. I returned as an
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  Speaker 1: enemy to those only who injured me. Fable three ISoP
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  Speaker 1: and the farmer, one taught by experience, is proverbially said
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  Speaker 1: to be more quick witted than a wizard. But the
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  Speaker 1: reason is not told, which now for the first time
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  Speaker 1: shall be made known by my fable. The ears of
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  Speaker 1: a certain man who reared flocks brought forth lambs with
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  Speaker 1: human heads. Dreadfully alarmed at the prodigy, he runs full
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  Speaker 1: of concern to the soothsayers. One answers that it bears
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  Speaker 1: reference to the life of the owner, and that the
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  Speaker 1: danger must be averted with a victim. Another no wiser
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  Speaker 1: affirms that it is meant that his wife is an
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  Speaker 1: adulteress and his children are spurious, but that it can
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  Speaker 1: be atoned for by a victim of greater age. Why
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  Speaker 1: in large they all differ in opinions and greatly aggravate
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  Speaker 1: the anxiety of the man. Isseip being at hand a
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  Speaker 1: sage of nice discernment, whom nature could never deceive by appearances, remarked,
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  Speaker 1: if you wish, farmer to take due precautions against this portent,
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  Speaker 1: find wives for your shepherds. Fable four, The Butcher and
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  Speaker 1: the Ape. A man, seeing an ape hanging up at
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  Speaker 1: the butcher's among the rest of his commodities and provisions,
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  Speaker 1: inquired how it might taste, on which the butcher, joking, replied,
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  Speaker 1: just as the head is such, I warrant is the taste.
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  Speaker 1: This I deem to be said more facetiously than correctly,
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  Speaker 1: For on the one hand, I have often found the
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  Speaker 1: good looking to be very knaves, and on the other
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  Speaker 1: I have known many with ugly features to be most
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  Speaker 1: worthy men. Fable five. Esip and the insolent men success
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  Speaker 1: leads many astray to their ruin an insolent fellow threw
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  Speaker 1: a stone at eesip. Well done, said he, and then
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  Speaker 1: gave him a penny, Thus continuing upon my faith, I
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: have got no more, but I will show you where
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: you can get some. See yonder comes a rich and
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  Speaker 1: influential man. Throw a stone at him in the same way,
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  Speaker 1: and you will receive a due reward. The other, being persuaded,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: did as he was advised. His daring impudence, however, was
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  Speaker 1: disappointed of its hope for being seized. He paid the penalty.
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  Speaker 1: On the cross Fable six, the Fly and the Mule.
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  Speaker 1: A fly sat on the pole of a chariot, and
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  Speaker 1: rebuking the mule, how slow you are, said she, will
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  Speaker 1: it not go faster? Take care that I don't prick
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  Speaker 1: your neck with my sting. The mule made answer, I
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  Speaker 1: am not moved by your words, but I fear him
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  Speaker 1: who sitting on the next seat, guides my yoke with
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  Speaker 1: his pliant whip and governs my mouth with the foam
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  Speaker 1: covered reins. Therefore, seize your frivolous impertinence, for I well
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  Speaker 1: know when to go at a gentle pace and when
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  Speaker 1: to run. In this fable, he may be deservedly ridiculed
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  Speaker 1: who without any strength gives utterance to vain threats. Fable seven,
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  Speaker 1: The Dog and the Wolf. I will show in a
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  Speaker 1: few words how sweet is liberty. A wolf, quite starved
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  Speaker 1: with hunger, chanced to meet a well fed dog, and
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  Speaker 1: as they stopped to salute each other, pray, said the wolf,
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  Speaker 1: How is it that you are so sleek? Or on
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  Speaker 1: what food have you made so much flesh? I, who
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: am far stronger, am perishing with hunger. The dog frankly replied,
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  Speaker 1: you may enjoy the same condition if you can render
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  Speaker 1: the like service to your master. What is it, said
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  Speaker 1: the other, to be the guardian of his threshold and
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: to protect the house from thieves at night? I am
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  Speaker 1: quite ready for that, said the wolf. At present I
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: have to endure snow and showers, dragging on a wretched
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: existence in the woods. Much more pleasant for me to
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: be living under a roof, and at my ease to
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: be stuffed with plenty of victuals. Come along, then with me,
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  Speaker 1: said the dog. As they were going along, the wolf
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  Speaker 1: observed the neck of the dog, where it was worn
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  Speaker 1: with the chain. Whence comes this, my friend, Oh, it
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: is nothing. Do tell me, though, because I appear to
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  Speaker 1: be fierce. They festen me up in the daytime, that
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I may be quiet when it is light, and watch
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  Speaker 1: when night comes. Un chained. At midnight, I wonder wherever
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  Speaker 1: I please. Bread is brought me without my asking, from
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: his own table. My master gives me bones, The servants
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: throw me bits, and whatever dainties. Each person leaves. Thus,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: without trouble on my part is my belly filled well?
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  Speaker 1: If you have a mind to go anywhere, are you
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  Speaker 1: at liberty? Certainly not, replied the dog. Enjoy what you
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  Speaker 1: boast of. I would not be a king to lose
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  Speaker 1: my liberty. Fable eight. The brother and sister worn by
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  Speaker 1: this lesson often examine yourself. A certain man had a
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  Speaker 1: very ugly daughter, and also a son remarkable for his
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  Speaker 1: handsome features. These diverting themselves as children do chance to
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: look into a mirror as it lay upon their mother's chair,
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  Speaker 1: he praises his own good looks. She is vexed and
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  Speaker 1: cannot endure the raillery of her boasting brother construing everything,
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  Speaker 1: and how could she do otherwise? As a reproach against herself, Accordingly,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: off she runs to her father to be avenged on him.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: In her turn, and with great rancor makes a charge
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: against the son, how that he, though a male, has
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: been meddling with a thing that belongs to the women.
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  Speaker 1: Embracing them both, kissing them, and dividing his tender affection
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  Speaker 1: between the two, he said, I wish you both to
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  Speaker 1: use the mirror every day, You, that you may not
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  Speaker 1: spoil your beauty by vicious conduct, You, that you may
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  Speaker 1: make amends by your virtues for your looks. Fable nine.
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  Speaker 1: Socrates to his friends, the name of a friend is common,
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  Speaker 1: but fidelity is rarely found. Socrates having later himself the
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: foundation of a small house, a man whose death I
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: would not decline if I could acquire similar fame, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: like him, I could yield to envy if I might
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: be but acquitted. When ashes, one of the people, no
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: matter who, among such passing remarks as are usual in
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: these cases, asked, why do you so faint as you
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: are build so small a house? I only wish, he replied,
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  Speaker 1: I could fill it with real friends. Fable ten, the
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: poet on believing and not believing. It is dangerous alike
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: to believe or to disbelieve of either fact. I will
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: briefly lay before you an instance Hippolytus met his death
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: because his stepmother was believed. Because Cassandra was not believed,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Troy fell. Therefore, we ought to examine strictly into the
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: truth of a matter, rather than suffer an erroneous impression
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to pervert our judgment. But that I may not weaken
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: this truth by referring to fabulous antiquity, I will relate
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  Speaker 1: to you a thing that happened within my own memory.
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  Speaker 1: A certain married man, who was very fond of his wife,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: having now provided the white toga for his son, was
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  Speaker 1: privately taken aside by his freedmen, who hoped that he
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: should be substituted as his next heir, and who, after
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  Speaker 1: telling many lies about the youth and so more about
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  Speaker 1: the misconduct of the chaste wife, added what he knew
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  Speaker 1: would especially grieve one so fond that a gallant was
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: in the habit of paying her visits, and that the
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: honor of his house was stained with bay's adultery. Enraged
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: at the supposed guilt of his wife, the husband pretended
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: a journey to his country house and privately stayed behind
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: in town. Then at night he suddenly entered at the door,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: making straight to his wife's apartment, in which the mother
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: had ordered her son to sleep, keeping a strict eye
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: over his ripening years, while they are seeking for a light.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: While the servants are hurrying to and fro unable to
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: restrain the violence of his raging passion, he approaches the
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: bed and feels a head in the dark. When he
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: finds the hair cut close, he plunges his sword into
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the sleeper's breast, caring for nothing so he but avenge
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  Speaker 1: his injury. A light being brought at the same instant,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: he beholds his son and his chaste wife sleeping in
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  Speaker 1: her apartment, who fast locked in her first sleep, had
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  Speaker 1: heard nothing. On the spot, he inflicted punishment on himself
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: for his guilt, and fell upon the sword, which a
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: too easy belief had unsheathed. The accusers indicted the woman
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and dragged her to Rome before the Centumvirai. Innocent as
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: she was dark, suspicion weighed heavily against her because she
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: had come possessor of his property. Her patrons stand and
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: boldly plead the cause of the guiltless woman. The judges
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: then besought the Emperor Augustus that he would aid them
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  Speaker 1: in the discharge of their oath, as the intricacy of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the case had embarrassed them. After he had dispelled the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: clouds raised by calumny and had discovered a sure source
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: of truth, Let the freedmen said he the cause of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the mischief, suffer punishment. But as for her, at the
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: same instant, bereft of a son and deprived of a husband,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: I deem her to be pitied rather than condemned. If
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: the father of the family had thoroughly inquired into the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: charge preferred, and had shrewdly sifted the lion accusations, he
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: would not, by a dismal crime, have ruined his house
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: from the very foundation. Let the ear despise nothing, nor yet,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: let it accord implicit belief at once, Since not only
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: do those err whom you would be far from suspecting,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: but those who do not err are sometimes falsely and
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: militia accused. This also may be a warning to the
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  Speaker 1: simple not to form a judgment on anything according to
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the opinion of another. For the different aims of mortals
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: either follow the bias of their good will or their prejudice.
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  Speaker 1: He alone will be correctly estimated by you, whom you
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: judge of by personal experience, these points I have enlarged
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  Speaker 1: upon as by too great brevity I have offended some
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  Speaker 1: Fable eleven, The Eunuch to the abusive Men. A eunuch
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  Speaker 1: had a dispute with a scurulous fellow, who, in addition
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: to obscene remarks an insolent abuse, reproached him with the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: misfortune of his mutilated person. Look, you said, the eunuch,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: this is the only point as to which I am
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: effectually staggered, forasmuch as I want the evidences of integrity.
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  Speaker 1: But why, simpleton, do you charge me with the fault
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: of fortune? That alone is really disgrace to a man,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: which he has deserved to suffer. Fable twelve. The Cock
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: and the Pearl. A young cock, while seeking for food
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  Speaker 1: on a dunghill, found a pearl, and exclaimed, what a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: fine thing are you to be lying in so unseemly
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: a place. If any one sensible of your value had
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: espied you here, it would long ago have returned to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: your former brilliancy. And it is I who have found you,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I to whom food is far preferable. I can be
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: of no use to you or you to me. This
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I relate for those who have no relish for me.
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  Speaker 1: Fable thirteen, The Bees and the Drones. The wasp sitting
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  Speaker 1: as a judge. Some bees had made their combs in
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: a lofty oak. Some lazy drones asserted that these belonged
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: to them. The cause was brought into court. The was
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: sitting as judge, who, being perfectly acquainted with either race,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: proposed to the two parties these terms. Your shape is
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: not unlike, and your collar is similar, so that the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: affair clearly and fairly becomes a matter of doubt, But
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: that my sacred duty may not be at fault through
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: insufficiency of knowledge. Each of you take hives and pour
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: your productions into the walks and cells, that from the
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: flavor of the honey and the shape of the calm,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: the maker of them, about which the present dispute exists,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: may be evident. The drones decline. The proposal pleases the bees.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Upon this, the wasp pronounces sentence to the following effect.
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  Speaker 1: It is evident who cannot and who did make them?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Wherefore to the bees I restore the fruits of their labors.
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  Speaker 1: This fable I should have passed by in silence. If
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the drones had not refused the proposed stipulation. Fable fourteen
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  Speaker 1: Eesop at play. An Athenian, seeing Eesop in a crowd
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: of boys at play with nuts stopped and left at
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: him for a madman. As soon as the sage a
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: leffer at others rather than one to be left at
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: perceive this, he placed an unstrung bow in the middle
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: of the road. Hark, you, wise men, said he unriddle
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: what I have done. The people gather round. The man
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: torments his invention a long time, but cannot make out
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: the reason of the proposed question. At last he gives up.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Upon this. The victorious philosopher says, you will soon break
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: the bow if you always keep it bent, But if
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: you loosen it, it will be fit for use when
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: you want it. Thus ought recreation sometimes to be given
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: to the mind, that it may return to you better
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: fitted for thought. Fable fifteen The Dog to the lamb.
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  Speaker 1: A dog said to a lamb bleating among some she goats, simpleton,
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  Speaker 1: you are mistaken. Your mother is not here, and pointed
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: out some sheep at a distance in a flock by themselves.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not looking for her, said the lamb, who, when
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: she thinks fit, conceives, then carries her unknown burden for
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: a certain number of months, and at last empties out
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: the fallen bundle. But for her, who, presenting her utter
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: nourishes me and deprives her young ones of milk, that
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: I may not go without. Still said the dog, she
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: ought to be preferred who brought you forth? Not at all?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: How was she to know whether I should be born
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: black or white? However, suppose she did know, seeing I
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: was born a male. Truly she conferred a great obligation
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: on me in giving me birth, that I might expect
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: the butcher every hour. Why should she, who had no
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: power in engendering me, be preferred to her who to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: pity on me as I lay, and of her own accord,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: showed me a welcome affection. It is kindliness make experience,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: not the ordinary course of nature. By these lines, the
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: author meant to show that men are averse to fixed rules,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: but are won by kind services. Fable sixteen, The grasshopper
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: and the owl. He who does not conform to courtesy
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: mostly pays the penalty of his superciliousness. A grasshopper was
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: making a chirping that was disagreeable to an owl who
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: was wont to seek her living in the dark and
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: in the daytime to take her rest in a hollow tree.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: She was asked to seize her noise, but she began
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: much more loudly to send forth her note. Entreaties urged again,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: only set her on still more. The owl, when she
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: saw she had no remedy and that her words were slighted,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: attacked the chatterer with this stratagy, as your song, which
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: one might take for the tones of Apollo's lyre, will
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: not allow me to go to sleep. I have a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: mind to drink some nectar, which Paullas lately gave me.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: If you do not object, come let us drink together.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: The other, who was parched with thirst, as soon as
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: she found her voice complimented, eagerly flew up the owl
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: coming forth from her hollow, seized the trembling thing, and
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: put her to death. Thus, what she had refused when alive,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: she gave when dead. Fable seventeen. The trees under the
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  Speaker 1: protection of the gods. The gods in days of yore
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  Speaker 1: made choice of such trees as they wished to be
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: under their protection. The oak pleased Jupiter, the myrtle, Venus,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: the laurel Phoebus, the pine Sibili the lofty poplar. Hercules. Minerva,
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  Speaker 1: wondering why they had chosen the baron Ones, inquired the reason.
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  Speaker 1: Jupiter answered that we may not seem to sell the
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  Speaker 1: honor for the fruit. Now, so Heaven help me, said she.
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  Speaker 1: Let anyone say what he likes, but the olive is
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  Speaker 1: more pleasing to me on account of its fruit. Then
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  Speaker 1: said the father of the gods and the creator of
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  Speaker 1: men O, daughter, it is with justice that you are
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  Speaker 1: called wise by all. Unless what we do is useful,
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  Speaker 1: vain is our glory. This little fable admonishes us to
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  Speaker 1: do nothing that is not profitable. Fable eighteen The Peacock
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  Speaker 1: to Juno. A peacock came to Juno, complaining sadly that
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  Speaker 1: she had not given to him the song of the Nightingale,
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  Speaker 1: that it was the admiration of every ear. While he
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  Speaker 1: himself was left at the very instant he raised his voice.
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  Speaker 1: The goddess to console him, replied, but you surpass the
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  Speaker 1: nightingale in beauty, you surpass him in size. The brilliancy
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  Speaker 1: of the emerald shines upon your neck, and you unfold
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  Speaker 1: a tail begemmed with painted plumage. Whereforegive me he retorted,
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  Speaker 1: a beauty that is dumb. If I am surpassed in
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  Speaker 1: voice by the will of the fates, said she, have
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  Speaker 1: your respective qualities been assigned Beauty to you, strength to
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  Speaker 1: the eagle, melody to the nightingale, to the raven, pressages,
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  Speaker 1: unpropitious omens to the crow. All of these are contented
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  Speaker 1: with their own endowments. Covet not that which has not
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  Speaker 1: been granted you, lest your baffled hopes sink down to
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  Speaker 1: useless repinings. Fable nineteen, Isaib's answer to the inquisitive man.
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  Speaker 1: When Esop was the only servant of his master, he
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  Speaker 1: was ordered to prepare dinner earlier than usual. Accordingly, he
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  Speaker 1: went round to several houses seeking for fire, and at
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  Speaker 1: last found a place at which to light his lantern. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as he had made a rather long circuit, he shortened
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  Speaker 1: the way back, for he went home straight through the forum.
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  Speaker 1: There a certain busybody in the crowd said to him, esith,
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  Speaker 1: why with a light at midday? I am in search
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  Speaker 1: of a man, said he, and went hastily homewards. If
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  Speaker 1: the inquisitive fellow reflected on this answer, he must have
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  Speaker 1: perceived that the sage did not deem him a man
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  Speaker 1: who could so unseasonably rally him when busy epilog. There
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  Speaker 1: are yet remaining fables for me to write. But I
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  Speaker 1: proposedly abstain, first that I may not seem troublesome to you,
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  Speaker 1: whom a multiplicity of matters distract, And next that if
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  Speaker 1: perchance any other person is desirous to make a little attempt,
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  Speaker 1: he may still have something left to do. Although there
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  Speaker 1: is so abundant a stalk of matter that an artist
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  Speaker 1: will be wanting to do. Work not work to the artist.
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  Speaker 1: I request that you will give the reward to my
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  Speaker 1: brevity which you promised. Make good your word. For life.
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  Speaker 1: Each day is nearer unto death, and the greater the
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  Speaker 1: time that is wasted in the lace, the less the
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  Speaker 1: advantage that will accrue to me. If you dispatch the
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  Speaker 1: matter quickly, the more lasting will be my enjoyment. The
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  Speaker 1: sooner I receive your favors, the longer shall I have
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  Speaker 1: the benefit thereof. While there are yet some remnants of
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  Speaker 1: a wearied life, there is room for your goodness. And
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  Speaker 1: after times your kindness will in vain endeavor to aid
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  Speaker 1: me anfirm with old age, For then I shall have
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  Speaker 1: ceased to be able to enjoy your kindness, and death
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  Speaker 1: close at hand will be claiming its due. I demit
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  Speaker 1: full to address my entreaties to you, when your compassion
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  Speaker 1: is so ready spontaneously to render assistance. A criminal has
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  Speaker 1: often gained pardon by confessing how much more reasonably ought
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  Speaker 1: it to be granted to the innocent. It is your
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  Speaker 1: province now to judge of my cause. It will fall
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  Speaker 1: to others, by and by and again by a like revolution.
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  Speaker 1: The turn of others will come pronounce the sentence as religion,
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  Speaker 1: as your oath permits, and give me reason to rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in your decision. My feelings have passed the limits they
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  Speaker 1: had proposed. But the mind is with difficulty restrained, which
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  Speaker 1: conscious of unsullied integrity, is exposed to the insults of
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  Speaker 1: spiteful men. Who are they? You will ask? They will
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  Speaker 1: be seen in time. For my part, so long as
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  Speaker 1: I shall continue in my senses, I shall take care
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  Speaker 1: to recollect that it is a dangerous thing for a
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  Speaker 1: man of humble birth to murmur in public and of
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  Speaker 1: book three, Book four of the Fables of Fiedris. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Lenny.
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  Speaker 1: The Fables of Fedris by Fiedris, translated by Henry Thomas Riley,
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  Speaker 1: Book four, Prologue two. Particular, when I had determined to
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  Speaker 1: put an end to my labors, with the view that
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  Speaker 1: there might be material enough left for the others in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, I silently condemned my resolve. For even if
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  Speaker 1: there is anyone desires of the like fame, how will
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  Speaker 1: he guess what it is I have omitted so as
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  Speaker 1: to wish to hand down that same to posterity? Since
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  Speaker 1: each man has a turn of thinking of his own,
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  Speaker 1: and a tone peculiar to himself. It was not therefore
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  Speaker 1: any any fickleness, but assured grounds that set me upon
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  Speaker 1: writing again. Wherefore, particular as you are amused by fables
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  Speaker 1: which I will style Ezopian, not those of Esept, For
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: whereas he published but few, I have brought out a
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  Speaker 1: great many, employing the old style, but with modern subjects.
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  Speaker 1: Now at your leisure, you shall peruse a fourth book.
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  Speaker 1: If envy shall choose to carp at it, so long
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  Speaker 1: as it cannot imitate, why let it carp I have
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  Speaker 1: gained glory enough in that you and others like to
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  Speaker 1: you have quoted my words in your writings, and have
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  Speaker 1: thought me worthy of being long remembered? Why should I
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  Speaker 1: stand in need of the applause of the illiterate fable
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: one the ass and the priests of Sabelli. He who
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  Speaker 1: has been born to ill luck not only passes an
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  Speaker 1: unhappy life, but even after death, the cruel rigor of
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  Speaker 1: destiny pursues him. The Gali priests of Saibelli were in
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  Speaker 1: the habit on their begging excursions of leading about an
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  Speaker 1: ass to carry their burdens. When he was dead with
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  Speaker 1: fatigue and blows, his hide being stripped off, they made
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  Speaker 1: themselves tambourines therewith. Afterwards, on being asked by someone what
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  Speaker 1: they had done with their favorite, they answered, in these words,
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  Speaker 1: he fancied that after death he would rest in quiet,
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  Speaker 1: But see that as he is fresh, blows are heaped
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  Speaker 1: upon him. Fable too, the Weasel and the Mice. This
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  Speaker 1: way of writing seems to you facecious and no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: While we have nothing of more importance. We do sport
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  Speaker 1: with the pen. But examine these fables with attention, and
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: what useful lessons will you find concealed under them? Things
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  Speaker 1: are not always what they seem. First appearances deceive many
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  Speaker 1: few minds understand what skill has hidden in an inmost corner.
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  Speaker 1: That I may not appear to have said this without reason.
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  Speaker 1: I will add a fable about the weasel and the mice.
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  Speaker 1: A weasel, worn out with years and old age, being
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  Speaker 1: unable to overtake the active mice, rolled herself in flower
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  Speaker 1: and threw herself carelessly along in a dark spot. A mouse,
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  Speaker 1: thinking her food, jumped upon her, and, being caught, was
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  Speaker 1: put to death. Another, in like manner perished, and then
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  Speaker 1: a third some others, having followed. An old brindled fellow came,
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  Speaker 1: who had escaped snares and mouse straps, full off, and
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  Speaker 1: viewing from afar the stratagym of the crafty foe. So
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  Speaker 1: fare you well, said he you that are lying there
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  Speaker 1: as you are Flower Fable three. The Fox and the grapes.
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  Speaker 1: Urged by hunger, a fox, leaping with all her might,
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  Speaker 1: tried to reach a cluster of grape upon a lofty vine.
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  Speaker 1: When she found she could not reach them, she left them,
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  Speaker 1: saying they are not right yet I don't like to
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  Speaker 1: eat them while sour. Those who disparage what they cannot
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  Speaker 1: perform ought to apply this lesson to themselves Fable four,
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  Speaker 1: The Horse and the wild Boar. While a wild boar
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  Speaker 1: was wallowing, he muddied at the shallow water at which
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  Speaker 1: a horse had been in the habit of quenching his thirst.
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  Speaker 1: Upon this a disagreement arose. The horse, enraged with the beast,
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  Speaker 1: sought the aid of men, and, raising him on his back,
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  Speaker 1: returned against the foe. After the horsemen, hurling his javelins,
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  Speaker 1: had slain the boar, he is said to have spoken, thus,
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  Speaker 1: I am glad that I gave assistance at your entreaties,
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  Speaker 1: for I have captured the prey and have learned how
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  Speaker 1: useful you are, and so compelled him, unwilling as he was,
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  Speaker 1: to submit to the rain. Then said the horse, sorrowing
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  Speaker 1: fool that I am, while seeking to revenge a trifling matter,
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  Speaker 1: I have met with slavery. This fable will admonish the
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  Speaker 1: passionate that it is better to be injured with impunity
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  Speaker 1: than to put ourselves in the power of another. Fable
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  Speaker 1: five ISoP interpreting a will I will show to posterity
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  Speaker 1: by a short story that there is often more merit
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  Speaker 1: in one man than in a multitude. A person at
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  Speaker 1: his death left three daughters, one handsome and hunting for
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  Speaker 1: the man with her eyes, the second an industrious spinner
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  Speaker 1: of wool, frugal and fond of a country life. The
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  Speaker 1: third given to wine and very ugly. Now the old
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  Speaker 1: man made their mother his heir on this condition that
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  Speaker 1: she should distribute his whole fortune equally among the three,
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  Speaker 1: but in such a manner that they should not possess
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  Speaker 1: or enjoy what was given them, And further that as
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  Speaker 1: soon as they should cease to have the property which
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  Speaker 1: they had received, they should pay over to their mother
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  Speaker 1: a hundred thousand sisterses. The rumor spreads all over Athene's
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  Speaker 1: The anxious mother consults the learned in the law. No
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  Speaker 1: one can explain in what way they are not to
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  Speaker 1: possess what has been given or have the enjoyment of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then again, in what way those who have received
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  Speaker 1: nothing are to pay money. After a long time had
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  Speaker 1: been wasted, and still the meaning of the will could
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  Speaker 1: not be understood, the parent, disregarding the strict letter of
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  Speaker 1: the law, consulted equity for the wanton. She set aside
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  Speaker 1: the garments, female trinkets, silver bathing vessels, eunuchs, and beardless
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  Speaker 1: boys for the worker in wool, the fields, cattle, farm laborers, oxen,
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  Speaker 1: beasts of burden, and implements of husbandry for the drinker.
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  Speaker 1: The store room well stocked with casks of old wine,
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  Speaker 1: a finely finished house, and the lifeful gardens. When she
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  Speaker 1: was intending to distribute what was thus set apart for
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  Speaker 1: each and the public approved, who knew them well, isob
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  Speaker 1: suddenly stood up in the midst of the multitude and exclaimed, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if consciousness remained to their buried father, how would he
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  Speaker 1: grieve that the people of Athens are unable to interpret
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  Speaker 1: his will? On this being questioned, he explained the error
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  Speaker 1: of them all. The house and the furniture, with the
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  Speaker 1: fine gardens and the old wines give to the worker
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  Speaker 1: in wool so fond of a country life. The clothes,
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  Speaker 1: the pearls, the attendants, and other things make over to
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  Speaker 1: her who spend her life in luxury, the fields, the vines,
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  Speaker 1: and the flocks, with the shepherds present to the wanton.
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  Speaker 1: Not one will be able to retain possession of what
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  Speaker 1: is alien to her taste. The ungainly one will sell
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  Speaker 1: her wardrobe to procure wine. The wanton will part with
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  Speaker 1: the lambs to procure fine clothes, and she who delight
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  Speaker 1: in cattle and attends to her spinning, will get rid
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  Speaker 1: of her luxurious abode at any price. Thus no one
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  Speaker 1: will possess what was given, and they will pay to
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  Speaker 1: their mother the sum named from the price of the
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  Speaker 1: things which each of them has sold. Thus did the
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  Speaker 1: sagacity of one man find out what had baffled the
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  Speaker 1: superficial enquiries of many. Fable six the Battle of the
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  Speaker 1: Mice and the Weasels. When the mice, overcome by the
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  Speaker 1: army of the weasels, whose histories painted in our taverns,
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  Speaker 1: took to flight and crowded in trepidation about their narrow,
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  Speaker 1: lurking holes, with difficulty getting in. They managed, however, to
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  Speaker 1: escape death. Their leaders, who had fastened horns to their
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  Speaker 1: heads in order that they might have a conspicuous sign
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  Speaker 1: for their troops to follow in battle, stuck fast at
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  Speaker 1: the entrance and were captured by the enemy. The victor,
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  Speaker 1: sacrificing them with greedy teeth, plunged them into the tartarian
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  Speaker 1: recesses of his capacious pouch. Whenever a people is reduced
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  Speaker 1: to the last extremity, the high position of its chiefs
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  Speaker 1: is in danger. The humble commonality easily finds safety in obscurity.
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  Speaker 1: Fable seven, the poet's defense against the censures of his fables. You,
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  Speaker 1: fastidious critic, who carp at my writings and disdained to
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  Speaker 1: read trifles of this kind, endure with some small patience
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: this little book, while it smoothed down the severity of
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: your brow, and eib comes forward in a new and
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  Speaker 1: more lofty style. Would that the pine had never fallen
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: on the summits of Pelion under the Thessalian ax, and
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  Speaker 1: that Argus had, never, with the aid of Paulas, invented
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  Speaker 1: a way boldly to meet certain death in the ship which,
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  Speaker 1: to the destruction of Greeks and Barbarians, first laid open
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  Speaker 1: the base of the inhospitable Excene. For both had the
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  Speaker 1: house of the proud Ethis too lament It and the
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  Speaker 1: realms of Pelias fell by the guilt of Medea, who,
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  Speaker 1: after concealing by various methods the cruelty of her disposition,
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  Speaker 1: there effected her escape by means of the limbs of
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  Speaker 1: her brother. And here embrewed the hands of the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of Pelias in their father's blood. What think you of this?
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  Speaker 1: This too, is mere folly, say you, And as an
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  Speaker 1: untrue story, for long before this, Minus of more ancient
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: date subjected the Aegean seas with his fleet, and by
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  Speaker 1: seasonable correction punished piratical attacks. What then can I possibly
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  Speaker 1: do for you, my cato of a reader, if neither
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  Speaker 1: fables nor tragic stories such your taste, do not be
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  Speaker 1: too severe upon all literary men, lest they repay you
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  Speaker 1: the injury with interest. This is said to those who
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  Speaker 1: are over squeamish in their folly, and to gain a
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  Speaker 1: reputation for wisdom would censure heaven itself. Fable eight. The
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  Speaker 1: Viper and the file. Let him who with greedy teeth
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  Speaker 1: attacks one who can bite harder consider himself described In
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  Speaker 1: this fable, a viper came into a smith's workshop, and,
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  Speaker 1: while on the search whether there was anything fit to eat,
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  Speaker 1: fasten her teeth upon a file that, however, disdainfully exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: Why fool do you try to wound me with your teeth?
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Who am in the habit of gnawing asunder every kind
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: of iron? Fable nine, The Fox and the Goat. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as a crafty man has fallen into danger, he
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  Speaker 1: seeks to make his escape by the sacrifice of another.
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  Speaker 1: A fox, through inadvertence, having fallen into a well and
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  Speaker 1: being closed in by the sides which were too high
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  Speaker 1: for her. A goat, parched with thirst, came to the
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  Speaker 1: same spot and asked whether the water was good and
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  Speaker 1: in plenty. The other, devising a stratagym, replied, come down,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, such is the goodness of the water that
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: my pleasure in drinking cannot be satisfied. Long beard descended.
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  Speaker 1: Then the fox, mounting on his high horns, escaped from
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  Speaker 1: the well and left the goats to stick fast in
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  Speaker 1: the enclosed mud. Fable ten, of the vices of men,
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  Speaker 1: Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets. The
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  Speaker 1: one filled with our own vices he has placed at
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  Speaker 1: our backs, the other heavy with those of others he
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  Speaker 1: has hung before. From the circumstance, we are not able
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  Speaker 1: to see our own faults, but as soon as others
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  Speaker 1: make us slip, we are ready to censure. Fable eleven.
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  Speaker 1: A thief pillaging the altar of Jupiter. A thief lighted
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  Speaker 1: his lamp at the altar of Jupiter, and then plundered
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  Speaker 1: it by the help of its own light. Just as
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  Speaker 1: he was taking his departure laden with the results of
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: his sacrilege. The Holy Place suddenly sent forth these words.
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  Speaker 1: Although these were the gifts of the wicked, and to
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  Speaker 1: me abominable, so much so that I care not to
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  Speaker 1: be spoiled of them. Still, profane men, thou shalt pay
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  Speaker 1: the penalty with thy life, when hereafter the day of
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: punishment appointed by fate arrives. But that our fire, by
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  Speaker 1: means of which piety worships the awful gods, may not
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  Speaker 1: afford its light to crime, I forbid that henceforth there
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: shall be any such interchange of light. Accordingly to this day,
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  Speaker 1: it is neither lawful for a lamp to be lighted
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  Speaker 1: at the fire of the gods, nor yet a sacrifice
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: kindled from a lamp. No other than he who invented
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: this fable could explain how many useful lessons it affords.
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  Speaker 1: In the first place, it teaches that those whom you
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  Speaker 1: yourself have brought up may often be found the most
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  Speaker 1: hostile to you. Then again, it shows that crimes are
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  Speaker 1: punished not through the wrath of the gods, but at
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  Speaker 1: the time appointed by the fates. Lastly, it warns the
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  Speaker 1: good to use nothing in common with the wicked Fable twelve.
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  Speaker 1: The evils of wealth, Hercules and Plutus Riches are deservedly
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  Speaker 1: despised by a man of worth, because a well stored
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: chest intercepts prays from its true objects. When Hercules was
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  Speaker 1: received into heaven as the reward of his virtues, and
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: saluted in turn the gods who were congratulating him on
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: Pluta's approaching, who is the child of fortune? He turned
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  Speaker 1: away his eye. His father, Jupiter inquired. A reason I
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  Speaker 1: hate him, says he, because he is the friend of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked, and at the same time corrupts all by
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  Speaker 1: presenting the temptation of gain Fable thirteen. The lion reigning
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  Speaker 1: nothing is more advantageous to a man than to speak
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  Speaker 1: the truth, a maxim that ought, indeed to be approved
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  Speaker 1: of by all, but still sincerity is frequently impelled to
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  Speaker 1: its own destruction. The lion, having made himself king of
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  Speaker 1: the wild beasts, and wishing to acquire the reputation of equity,
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  Speaker 1: abandon his former course of rapine and content among them
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  Speaker 1: with a moderate supply of food, distributed hallow justice with
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  Speaker 1: incorruptible fidelity. But after second thoughts began to prevail, the
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  Speaker 1: rest is lost. Fable fifteen, The she goats and their beards.
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  Speaker 1: The she goats, having obtained of jupitery the favor of
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  Speaker 1: a beard, the he goats, full of concern, began to
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  Speaker 1: be indignant that the females rival them in their dignity.
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  Speaker 1: Suffer them, said the God, to enjoy their empty honors,
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  Speaker 1: and to use the badge that belongs to your rank,
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  Speaker 1: so long as they are not sharers in your courage.
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  Speaker 1: This fable teaches you to bear that those who are
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  Speaker 1: inferior to you in merit should be like you in
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  Speaker 1: outside appearances. Fable sixteen The pilot and the Mariners. On
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  Speaker 1: a certain man, complaining of his adverse fortune, Esep, for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of consoling him, invented this fable. A ship
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  Speaker 1: which had been tossed by a fierce tempest, while the
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  Speaker 1: passengers were all in tears and filled with apprehensions of
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  Speaker 1: death on the day, suddenly changing to a serene aspect,
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  Speaker 1: began to be borne along in safety upon the buoyant waves,
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  Speaker 1: and to inspire the mariners with an access of gladness.
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  Speaker 1: On this the pilot, who had been rendered wise by experience, remarked,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to be moderate in our joy and to
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  Speaker 1: complain with caution, for the whole of life is a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of grief and joy. Fable seventeen, The Embassy of
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  Speaker 1: the Dogs to Jupiter. The Dogs once send ambassadors to
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  Speaker 1: Jupiter to entreat of him a happier lot in life,
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  Speaker 1: and that he would deliver them from the insulting treatment
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  Speaker 1: of men who gave them bread mixed with brand and
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  Speaker 1: satisfied their most urgent hunger with filthy awful. The ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: set out, but with no hasty steps, whilst nothing with
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  Speaker 1: their nostrils for food, in every filth being summoned, they
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  Speaker 1: failed to make their appearance. After some difficulty, Mercury finds
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  Speaker 1: them at last and brings them up in confusion. As soon, however,
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  Speaker 1: as they saw the countenance of Mighty Jove, in their fright,
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  Speaker 1: they bewrayed the whole palace. Out they go, driven away
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  Speaker 1: with sticks, But Great Jove forbade that they should be
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  Speaker 1: sent back. The Dogs, wondering that their ambassadors did not return,
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  Speaker 1: and suspecting that they had committed something disgraceful, after a while,
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  Speaker 1: ordered others to be appointed to aid them. Rumors soon
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  Speaker 1: betrayed the former embassadors, dreading that something of a similar
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  Speaker 1: nature may happen a second time. They stuff the dogs
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  Speaker 1: behind with perfumes, and plenty of them. They give their directions,
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  Speaker 1: the ambassadors are despatched at once they take their departure,
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  Speaker 1: they beg for an audience, and forthwith obtain it. Then
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  Speaker 1: did the most mighty Father of the gods take his
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  Speaker 1: seat on his throne and brandish his thunders. All things
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  Speaker 1: began to shake the dogs in alarm. So sudden was
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  Speaker 1: the crash. In a moment, let fall the perfumes with
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  Speaker 1: their dongue. All cry out that the affront must be avenged.
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  Speaker 1: But before proceeding to punishment, thus spoke Jupiter. It is
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  Speaker 1: not for a king to send ambassadors away, nor is
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  Speaker 1: it a difficult matter to inflict a proper punishment on
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  Speaker 1: the offense. But by way of judgment, this is the
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  Speaker 1: reward you shall have. I don't forbid their return, but
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  Speaker 1: they shall be famished with hunger, lest they be not
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  Speaker 1: able to keep their stomachs in order. And as for
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  Speaker 1: those who send such despicable ambassadors as you, they shall
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  Speaker 1: never be free from the insults of men. And so
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  Speaker 1: it is that even now the dogs of the present
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  Speaker 1: day are in expectation of their ambassadors, when one of
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  Speaker 1: them sees a strange dog appear his nuffs at his
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  Speaker 1: tail Fable eighteen, The Men and the Snake. He who
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  Speaker 1: gives relief to the wicked has to repent it. Before long,
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  Speaker 1: a man took up a snake stiffened with frost, and
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  Speaker 1: warmed her in his bosom, being passionate to his own undoing.
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  Speaker 1: For when she had recovered, she instantly killed the man
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  Speaker 1: on another one. Asking her the reason of this crime,
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  Speaker 1: she made answer that people may learn not to assist
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  Speaker 1: the wicked. Fable nineteen, The Fox and the Dragon. While
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  Speaker 1: a fox digging a lair was throwing out the earth
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  Speaker 1: and making deeper and more numerous burrows, she came to
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  Speaker 1: the farthest recesses of a dragon's den, who was watching
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  Speaker 1: some treasure hidden there. As soon as the fox perceived him,
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  Speaker 1: she began. In the first place, I beg that you
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  Speaker 1: will pardon my unintentional intrusion. And next, as you see
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  Speaker 1: clearly enough that gold is not suited to my mode
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  Speaker 1: of life, have the goodness to answer me, what profit
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  Speaker 1: do you derive from this toil? Or what is the
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  Speaker 1: reward so great that you should be deprived of sleep?
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  Speaker 1: And pass your life in darkness. None at all replied
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  Speaker 1: the other. But this task has been assigned me by
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Jove. Then you neither take anything for yourself nor
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  Speaker 1: give to another. Such is the will of the fates.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be angry, then, if I say frankly, the man
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  Speaker 1: is borne under the displeasure of the gods, who is
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  Speaker 1: like you, as you must go to that place to
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  Speaker 1: which others have gone before. Why in the blindness of
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  Speaker 1: your mind do you torment your wretched existence To you?
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  Speaker 1: I address myself miser joy of your air, who rob
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  Speaker 1: the gods of their incense, yourself of food, who here
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  Speaker 1: with sorrow the musical sound of the lyre, whom the
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  Speaker 1: joyous notes of the pipe's torment, from whom the prize
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  Speaker 1: of provisions extorts a groan, who, while adding some farthings
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  Speaker 1: to your estate, offend Heaven by your sordid perjuries, who
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  Speaker 1: are for cutting down every expense at your funeral, for
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: fear Libitina should be at all a gainer at the
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  Speaker 1: expense of your property Fable twenty Fidris. Although malice may
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  Speaker 1: dissemble for the present, I am still perfectly aware what
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  Speaker 1: judgment it will think proper to arrive at whatever it
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  Speaker 1: shall here deem worthy to be transmitted to posterity, it
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  Speaker 1: will say belongs to esip. If it shall be not
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: so well pleased with any portion, it will, for any
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  Speaker 1: wager contend that the same was composed by me, one
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  Speaker 1: who thus thinks I would refute once for all by
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: this my answer whether this work is silly or whether
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  Speaker 1: it is worthy of praise. He was the inventor. My
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  Speaker 1: hand has brought it to perfection. But let us pursue
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  Speaker 1: our purpose in the order we proposed. Fable twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: the shipwreck of Semonides. A learned man has always a
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  Speaker 1: fund of riches in himself. Simonidis, who wrote such excellentlyric poems,
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  Speaker 1: the more easily to support his poverty, began to make
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  Speaker 1: a tour of the celebrated cities of Asia, singing the
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  Speaker 1: praises of victors, for such rewards as he might receive.
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  Speaker 1: After he had become enriched by this kind of gain,
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  Speaker 1: he resolved to return to his native land by sea.
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  Speaker 1: For he was born, it is said, in the island
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  Speaker 1: of Seas. Accordingly, he embarked in a ship which a
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: dreadful tempest, together with its own rottenness caused to founder
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: at sea. Some gathered together their girdles, others their precious effects,
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  Speaker 1: which formed the support of their existence. One who was
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: over inquisitive, remarked, are you going to save none of
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  Speaker 1: your property? Simonides? He made reply, All my possessions are
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  Speaker 1: about me. A few only made their escape by swimming,
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: for the majority, being weighed down by their burdens perished,
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  Speaker 1: Some thieves make their appearance and seize what each person
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  Speaker 1: has saved, leaving them naked. Klatromene, an ancient city, chanced
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  Speaker 1: to be near to which the shipwrecked persons repaired. Here,
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  Speaker 1: a person devoted to the pursuits of literature, who had
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  Speaker 1: often read the lines of Semonites, and was a very
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: great admirer of him, though he had never seen him,
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  Speaker 1: knowing from his very language who he was, received him
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  Speaker 1: with the greatest pleasure into his house and furnished him
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  Speaker 1: with clothes, money, and attendance. The others, meanwhile, were caring
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  Speaker 1: about their pictures, begging for victuals. Semonites chanced to meet them,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he saw them, remarked, I told
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  Speaker 1: you that all my property was about me. What you
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to save is lost. Fable twenty two. The mountain
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  Speaker 1: in labor. A mountain was in labor, sending forth dreadful groans,
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  Speaker 1: and there was in the districts the highest expectation. All
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  Speaker 1: it brought forth a mouse. This is designed for you, who,
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  Speaker 1: when you have threatened great things, produced nothing Fable twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: The ant and the fly. An ant and a fly
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  Speaker 1: were contending with great warmth, which was of the greater importance.
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  Speaker 1: The fly was the first to begin. Can you possibly
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  Speaker 1: compare with my endowments? When a sacrifice is made, I
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  Speaker 1: am the first to taste of the entrails that belong
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  Speaker 1: to the gods. I pass my time among the altars,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: I wander through all the temples. Soon as I have
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: espied it, I seat myself on the head of a king,
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  Speaker 1: and I taste of the chaste kisses of matrons. I
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: labor not and yet enjoy the nicest of things. What
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  Speaker 1: like to this good rustic falls to your lot? Eating
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: with the gods, said the ant is certainly a thing
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  Speaker 1: to be boasted of, but by him who is invited,
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  Speaker 1: not him who is loathed. As an intruder. You talk
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: about kings and the kisses of matrons, while I am
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: carefully heaping up a stalk of grain for winter. I
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: see you feeding on filth about the walls. You frequent
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: the altars, yes, and are driven away as often as
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: you come. You labor not. Therefore, it is that you
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: have nothing when you stand in need of it. And
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: further you boast about what modesty ought to conceal. You
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  Speaker 1: tease me in summer. When winter comes, you are silent,
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  Speaker 1: while the cold is shriveling you up and putting you
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  Speaker 1: to death. A well stored abode harbors me. Surely I
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: have now pulled down your pride enough. A fable of
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  Speaker 1: this nature distinctly points out the characters of those who
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  Speaker 1: set themselves off with unfounded praises, and of those whose
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: virtues gained solid fame. Fable twenty four Simonid is preserved
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  Speaker 1: by the gods. I have said above, how greatly learning
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  Speaker 1: is esteemed among men I will now hand down to posterity.
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  Speaker 1: How great is the honor paid to it by the gods. Simonides,
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  Speaker 1: the very same of whom I have before made mention,
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: agreed at a fixed price to write a penegyric for
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: a certain pugilist who had been victorious accordingly, he sought retirement,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: as the meagerness of his subject cramped his imagination. He used,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: according to general custom, the license of the poet, and
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: introduced the twin stars of Leda, citing them as an
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: example of similar honors. He finished the poem according to contract,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: but received only a third part of the sum agreed upon.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: On his demanding the rest, they said, he will give
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: it you, whose praises occupy the other two thirds, but
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: that I may feel convinced that you have not departed
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: in anger. Promised to dine with me as I intend
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: to day, to invite my kinsmen and a number of
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: whom I reckon you, although defrauded and smarting under the injury.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: In order that he might not, by parting on bad terms,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: break off all friendly intercourse, he promised that he would
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: at the hour named. He returned and took his place
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: at table. The banquet shone joyously with its cubs. The
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: howls resounded with gladness amid vast preparations, when on a
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: sudden two young men, covered with dust and dripping with perspiration,
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  Speaker 1: their bodies of more than human form, requested one of
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: the servants to call simonities to them, and say that
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: it was of consequence to him to make no delay.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: The men, quite confused, called forth Semonides, and hardly had
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: he put one foot out of the banqueting room, when
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: suddenly the fall of the ceiling crushed the rest, and
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: no young man were to be seen at the gate.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: When the circumstances of the story I have told were
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: made known, all were persuaded that the personal intervention of
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: the divinities has saved the poet's life. By way of reward. Epilogue,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: there are still remaining many things which I might say,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: and there is a copious abundance of subjects. But the
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: witticisms well tyed are pleasing out of place they discussed. Wherefore,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: most upright particular a name destined to live in my writings,
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  Speaker 1: so long as the value shall continue to be set
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: upon the Latin literature. If you like not my genius,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: at least approve my brevity, which has the more just
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: claim to be commended, Seeing how wearisome poets usually are.
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  Speaker 1: End of book four, Book five of the Fables of Fedris.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: Lindy The Fables of Fiedris by Fiedris, translated by Henry
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: Thomas Riley, Book five, prologue. If I shall anywhere insert
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  Speaker 1: the name of Eesip, to whom I have already rendered
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: every honor that was his due, know that it is
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: for the sake of his authority, just as some statuaries
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: do in our day, who obtain a much greater prize
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: for their productions if they inscribe the name of Prexidiles
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: on their marbles and Miron on their polished silver. Therefore,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: let these fables obtain a hearing carping envy more readily
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: favors the works of antiquity than those of the present day.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: But now I turn to a fable with a moral
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: to the purpose. Fable one Demetrius and Menander. Demetrius, who
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: was called Phalerius, unjustly took possession of the sovereignty of Athens.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: The mob, according to their usual practice, rush from all quarters,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: vying with each other, and cheer him and wish him joy.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: Even the chief men kissed the hand by which they
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: are oppressed, while they silently lament the sad vicissitudes of fortune. Moreover,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: those who live in retirement and take their ease come
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: creeping in lest of all that their absence may not
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: injure them. Among these Menender, famous for his comedies, which Demetrius,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: who did not know him, had read and had admired.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: The genius of the men perfumed with intwins and clad
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: in a flowing row, came with a mincing and languid step.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the tyrant caught sight of him at
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: the end of the train. What effeminate wretch? Said? He
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: is this who presumes to come into my presence? Those
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: near him made answer, this is Menender. The poet changed
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: in an instant. He exclaimed a more agreeable looking man
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: could not possibly exist. Fable two the travelers and the Robber.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: Two soldiers having fallen in with a robber. One fled,
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  Speaker 1: while the others stood his ground and defended himself with
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: a stout right hand. The robber slain. His cowardly companion
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: comes running up and draws his sword. Then, throwing back
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: his traveling cloak, says, let's have him. I'll take care
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: he shall soon know whom he attacks on this. He
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: who had vanquished the robber, made answer, I wish you
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: had seconded me just now, at least with those words
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: I should have been still more emboldened believing them true.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: Now keep your sword quiet, as well as your silly tongue,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: that you may be able to deceive others who don't
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: know you. I, who have experienced with what speed you
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: take to your heels, know full well that no dependence
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: is to be placed upon your veilor the story may
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: be applied to him whose courageous and prosperity in times
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: of danger take flight. Fable three, The bald Man and
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  Speaker 1: the fly. A fly bit the bare pain of a
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: bald man, who, endeavoring to crush it, gave himself a
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: heavy blow. Then said the fly, jeeringly, you wanted to
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death. What
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: The man made answer, I am easily reconciled to myself
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: because I know that there was no intention of doing harm.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: But you, worthless insect and one of a contemptible race,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: who take a delight in drinking human blood. I could
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: wish to destroy you, even at a heavier penalty. This
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: fable teaches that pardon is to be granted to him
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: who urged through mistake. But him who is designedly mischievous,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: I deem to be deserving of any punishment. Fable four
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  Speaker 1: The Man and the ass. A man, having sacrifice a
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: young boar to the god Hercules, to whom he owed
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: performance of a vow made for the preservation of his health,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: ordered the remains of the barley to be set for
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: the ass. But he refused to touch it, and said,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: I would most willingly accept your food if he who
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: had been fed upon it had not had his throat
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: cut worn by the significance of this fable, I have
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: always been careful to avoid the game that exposed to hazard.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: But say you, those who have got riches by rapine
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: are still in possession of them. Come, then let us
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: enumerate those who, being detected, have come to a bad end.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: We will find that those so punished constitute a great majority.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: Rashness brings luck to a few, misfortune to most. Fable five.
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  Speaker 1: The buffoon and the countrymen. Men are in the habit
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  Speaker 1: of erring through prejudice, and while they stand up in
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: defense of their erroneous notions, are want to be driven
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  Speaker 1: by plain facts to confession of their mistakes. A rich
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  Speaker 1: man about to entertain the people with grand shows, invited
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  Speaker 1: all by the promise of a reward to exhibit whatever
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  Speaker 1: new piece of ingenuity any one could. The performers came
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  Speaker 1: to the contest for fame, among whom a buffoon well
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  Speaker 1: known for his drollery, said that he had a kind
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  Speaker 1: of entertainment which had never yet been brought out at
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  Speaker 1: any theater. The rumor spreading brought together the whole city,
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  Speaker 1: and the places empty shortly before sufficed not for the multitude.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as he appeared on the stage alone
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  Speaker 1: and without any apparatus, any stage assistance, the very intenseness
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  Speaker 1: of expectation produced silence. Suddenly he dropped down his head
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  Speaker 1: towards his bosom, and so well did he imitate the
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  Speaker 1: voice of a peg with his own that they concluded
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  Speaker 1: there was a real one under his cloak, and ordered
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  Speaker 1: it to be shaken out, this being done as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they found that nothing was discovered. They loaded the
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  Speaker 1: man with many praises and bestowed upon him the greatest applause.
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  Speaker 1: A countryman, seeing this take place, e God, said he
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  Speaker 1: he shaun surpass me, and immediately gave out that he
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  Speaker 1: would do the same thing still better on the following day.
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  Speaker 1: A still greater crowd assembled. Prejudice had already taken possession
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  Speaker 1: of her minds, and they took their seats, determined to
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  Speaker 1: the ride, and not as unbiased spectators. Both performers come forth.
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  Speaker 1: First the buffoon grunts away and excites their applause and
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  Speaker 1: awakens their acclamations. Next, the countrymen, pretending that he concealed
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  Speaker 1: the pig beneath his clothes, which in fact he did,
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  Speaker 1: but quite unsuspected because they had found none about the other,
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  Speaker 1: twiched the ear of the real pig which he was concealing, and,
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  Speaker 1: with the pain forced from it its natural cry. The
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  Speaker 1: people shouted with one voice that the buffoon had given
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  Speaker 1: a much more exact imitation, and ordered the countrymen to
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  Speaker 1: be driven from the stage. On this he produced the
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  Speaker 1: pig itself from the folds of his cloak, and convicting
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  Speaker 1: them of their disgraceful mistake by a manifest proof look,
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  Speaker 1: said he, this shows what sort of judges you are
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  Speaker 1: fable Six the two bald men. A bald man chanced
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  Speaker 1: to find a comb in the public road. Another equally
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  Speaker 1: destitute of hair came up. Come, said, he shares whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is you have found. The other showed the booty
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  Speaker 1: and added withal the will of the gods has favored us.
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  Speaker 1: But through the malignity of fate we have found as
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  Speaker 1: the saying is a coal instead of a treasure. This
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  Speaker 1: complaint befits him whom Hope has disappointed. Fable seven Princeps
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  Speaker 1: the flute player. When a weak mind beguiled by frivolous applause,
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  Speaker 1: has once given way to insolent self sufficiency. Such foolish
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  Speaker 1: vanity is easily exposed to ridicule. Princips the flute player
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  Speaker 1: was pretty well known, being accustomed to accompany Bethhyllis with
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  Speaker 1: his music on the stage. It chanced that at a
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  Speaker 1: representation I don't well remember what it was, while the
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  Speaker 1: flying machine was being whirled along, he fell heavily through inadvertence,
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  Speaker 1: and broke his left leg, when he would much rather
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  Speaker 1: have parted with two right ones. He was picked up
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  Speaker 1: and carried to his house, groaning aloud. Some months passed
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  Speaker 1: by before his curi is completed. As is the way
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  Speaker 1: with the spectators, for they are a merry race, the
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  Speaker 1: men began to be missed by whose blasts the vigor
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  Speaker 1: of the dancer was wont to be kept at full stretch.
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  Speaker 1: A certain nobleman was about to exhibit a show, just
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  Speaker 1: when Princips was beginning to walk abroad with the present
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  Speaker 1: and entreaties he prevailed upon him merely to present himself
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  Speaker 1: on the day of the show. When the day came,
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  Speaker 1: a rumor about the flute player ran through the theater.
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  Speaker 1: Some affirmed that he was dead, some that he would
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  Speaker 1: appear before them without delay, the curtain falling, the thunders rolled,
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  Speaker 1: and the gods conversed in the usual form. At this moment,
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  Speaker 1: the chorus struck up a song unknown to him, who
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  Speaker 1: had so recently returned, of which the burden was this.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice Rome in security for your Prince. Princeps is well,
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  Speaker 1: All rides with one consent and applaud. The flute player
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  Speaker 1: kisses hands and imagines that his friends are congratulating him.
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  Speaker 1: The Equestrian order perceived a ridiculous mistake, and with loud
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  Speaker 1: laughter encored the song. It is repeated, my man now
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  Speaker 1: throws himself, sprawling at full length upon the stage, ridiculing
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  Speaker 1: him the Knight's applaud, while the people fancy he is
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  Speaker 1: only asking for a chaplet. When, however, the reality came
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  Speaker 1: to be known throughout all the tires. Princeps his leg
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  Speaker 1: bound up with a snow white filad, clad in a
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  Speaker 1: snow white tunic and snow white shoes, while pluming himself
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  Speaker 1: on the honors really paid to the defied house, was
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  Speaker 1: thrust out headlong by common consent. Fable eight. The emblem
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  Speaker 1: of opportunity. A bald man, balancing on a razor's edge,
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  Speaker 1: fleet afoot, his forehead covered with hair, his body naked.
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  Speaker 1: If you have caught him, hold him fast when he
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  Speaker 1: has once escaped. Not Jupiter himself can overtake him. He
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  Speaker 1: is the emblem. How short lived is opportunity? The entrance
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  Speaker 1: devised such a portraiture of time to signify that slothful
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  Speaker 1: delay should not hinder the execution of her purposes. Fable nine.
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  Speaker 1: The Bull and the calf. When a bull was struggling
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  Speaker 1: with his horns in a narrow passage and could hardly
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  Speaker 1: effect an entrance to the manger, a calf began to
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  Speaker 1: point out in what way he might turn himself. Hush,
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  Speaker 1: said the bull, I knew that before you were born.
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  Speaker 1: Let him who would instruct a wiser men, consider this
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  Speaker 1: as said to himself. Fable ten. The huntsmen and the dog.
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  Speaker 1: A dog who had always given satisfaction to his master
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  Speaker 1: by his boldness against swift and savage beasts, began to
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  Speaker 1: grow feeble under increasing years. On one occasion, being urged
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  Speaker 1: to the combat with a bristling boar, he seized him
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  Speaker 1: by the ear, but through the rottenness of his teeth,
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  Speaker 1: let go his prey. Vexed at this, the huntsmen upbraided
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  Speaker 1: the dog. Old Barker replied, it is not my courage
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  Speaker 1: that disappoints you, but my strength. You commend me for
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  Speaker 1: what I have been, and you blame me that I
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  Speaker 1: am not what I was. Euphiletus may easily perceive why
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  Speaker 1: I have written this. End of Book five, end of
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  Speaker 1: the Fables of Feedris by Feadris, translated by Henry Thomas Riley.