Thou’rt great; the ox is large and fat; let none repine.
The ibex is my share. As I, so it’s the mean.
And thou, O fox, shalt have the hare. ’Tis not too lean.”
The lion interposed: “Wolf! What is this thou’st said?
I present; and to talk of ‘thou’ and ‘I,’ so staid!35
What rubbish is a wolf, to deem himself a judge
In presence of a lion, who’ll soon make him budge?
Come hither, ass! Thyself alone it is thou’st sold!”
With this he tears the wolf to pieces, all too bold.
He saw the wolf had not one grain of common sense;