. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . THE FOX AND THE CROW. A CROW, having taken a piece of cheese outof a cottage window, flew up into a high treewith it, in order to eat it; which a Fox ob-serving, came and sat underneath, and beganto compliment the Crow upon the subject ofher beauty; I protest, says he, I never ob-served it before, but your feathers are of amore delicate white than any that ever I sawin my life ! Ah ; what a fine shape and grace-ful turn of body is there ! And I make no ques-tion but you have a tolerable voice. If it isbut as fine as
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . THE FOX AND THE CROW. A CROW, having taken a piece of cheese outof a cottage window, flew up into a high treewith it, in order to eat it; which a Fox ob-serving, came and sat underneath, and beganto compliment the Crow upon the subject ofher beauty; I protest, says he, I never ob-served it before, but your feathers are of amore delicate white than any that ever I sawin my life ! Ah ; what a fine shape and grace-ful turn of body is there ! And I make no ques-tion but you have a tolerable voice. If it isbut as fine as your complexion, I do not knowa bird that can pretend to stand in competitionwith you. The Crov/, tickled with this veiycivil language, nestled and riggled about, andhardly knew where she v/as; but thinking theFox a httle dubious as to the particular of hervoice, and having a mind to set him right iuthat matter, began to sing, and in the same in-stant let the cheese drop out of her mouth. 140 FABLE LXVII. This being what the Fox wanted, he chopped itup in a moment, and tro
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