The Old Lion
A Lion, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on the
ground at the point of death. A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged
with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury. Shortly afterwards
the Bull with his horns gored him as if he were an enemy. When the
Ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let
drive at his forehead with his heels. The expiring Lion said, "I have
reluctantly brooked the insults of the brave, but to be compelled
to endure such treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed
to die a double death."
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