How useful what I did disdain!
How grievous that which made me vain.”
[XIII.] THE FOX AND THE CROW.
His folly in repentance ends,
Who, to a flatt’ring knave attends.
A Crow, her hunger to appease,
Had from a window stolen some cheese,
And sitting on a lofty pine
In state, was just about to dine.
This, when a Fox observed below,