WOLF. Ah, if I could only eat oats! What a dinner I should have! I would tell no one! No one would know, and the whole field would be mine.
(Enter the HORSE from the forest.)
Ah, good friend, such news as I can tell you!
HORSE. I will not promise to believe you.
WOLF. Well, then, believe your own eyes. There lies a field of ripe oats!
HORSE. As I live, you speak the truth!
WOLF. I have not tasted one! I have kept them all for you.
"as i live, you speak the truth!"