On asking why she was so base,
Was told, “’Tis others to dissuade
From giving wickedness their aid.”
[XV.] THE FOX AND THE DRAGON.
A Fox was throwing up the soil,
And while with his assiduous toil
He burrow’d deep into the ground,
A Dragon in his den he found,
A-watching hidden treasure there,
Whom seeing, Renard speaks him fair: