But take this to the mint; defaced ’twill be, in fine.165
Then be not thou misled with gilded counterfeit;
Delusion will thee plunge headlong into hell’s pit.
V.
The Lion and the Beasts.
Kalīl’ and Dimna’s book relates a charming tale,[136]
From which males may a moral draw;—and eke, female.
Within a shelter’d vale, four-footed game in droves,
Were kept in tremor by a lion from its groves.
So frequently had he borne victims off from thence,