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FLORIAN'S FABLES.

FABLE XXVIII.
THE LEOPARD AND THE MONKEYS.


Once on a time some monkey folk
       Hot-cockles play'd.
The game was but a simple joke:
A fair one sits, her lap array'd
So as to hide a monkey's eyes: