Let’s ask about the hare; hear what he has to say.
Sell off thy ass’ ears; with the price a fresh pair buy.
An ass’s ears will never understand this cry.[153]
Go to. Examine well the hare’s most foxy wile,—
The subtle stratagem that did the lion foil.135
Wisdom’s the seal by which great Solomon did rule.
The whole world’s but a frame, and wisdom is its soul.
Hence ’tis, by wisdom’s spell, as clay on potter’s wheel,
The seas, the hills, the plains, are made man’s power to feel.
The lion, tiger, leopard, dread him as does mouse;