Receive it in a friendly way;
Which grace I purpose to repay
By this consciousness of my song;
Whose praises, lest they be too long,
Attend, why you should stint the sneak,
But give the modest, ere they seek.
[ Fable I.] THE JUDICIOUS LION.
A Lion on the carcass stood
Of a young heifer in the wood;
A robber that was passing there,