Who taught thee with such judgment rare to portion pelf?
Where didst thou learn to do full justice with great art?”
Said he: “My Lord, to teach me was that dead wolf’s part.”
The lion thus replied: “For us much love thou’st shown.
Take thou all three unto thyself, as very own.100
Good fox! Thou’st given up thyself entire, for us.
Why should I injure thee? Thou’rt I myself. No fuss!
Myself am thine; the prey is thine; all,—every bit.
Exalt thy head above the spheres. For that thou’rt fit.
Thou’st taken warning from that wretched, selfish wolf.