The Fables of La Fontaine

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Excerpt from The Fables of La Fontaine: Translated From the French As the pains of men assail them unexpectedly, so their pleasures come in the same manner, a divine power strongly operates in both. Be i t so the ¿esh of these three animals will sustain me a whole month, or longer. A man suffices for one month, a fawn and a bear, for two a snake, for a whole day and then I will devour the bowstring.' \vhen the first impulse of his hunger was allayed, he said, This ¿esh is not yet tender let me taste the twisted string, with which the horns of this bow are joined.' So saying, he began to gnaw it, but, in the instant w hen he had cut the string, the severed bow leaped forcibly up, and wounded him in the breast, so that he departed in the agonies of death. This I meant, when I cited the verse, Frugality should ever be practised, dx. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.