Thus said: “See comfort ev’n in death!
She that derided my distress
Must now deplore her own no less.”
[X.] THE WOLF AND FOX, WITH THE APE FOR JUDGE.
Whoe’er by practice indiscreet
Has pass’d for a notorious cheat,
Will shortly find his credit fail,
Though he speak truth, says Esop’s tale.
The Wolf the Fox for theft arraign’d;
The Fox her innocence maintain’d: