Reflection shadowed forth a lion and a hare.
The lion saw his own shape in the water shine:
“Another lion,” thought he, “with fat hare on chine.”
His foe he fancied, thus, that in the well he’d spied.
The hare he set down safely; in leapt he with pride.425
He thus fell in the pit he had for others dug.
Iniquity will visit those who drink out of her mug.
Iniquity’s a pit into which tyrants fall.
Such is the firm conviction of our wise men all.
The wickeder a man, the deeper does he sink.