The Donkey and the Lion

by Aesop

Versions of The Donkey and the Lion include:

• "Of the Lyon and of the Aſſe", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "An Aſs and a Lion", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Lion and the Ass", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
• The Lion and Ass Hunting, edited by Paul Bransom (1921)