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THE SECONDE PART OF MORALL PHILOSOPHIE.

without any hurt at all. The Crabbe returned home to hir Lake, and tolde all the miſchiefe of the Fowle, and in what daunger ſhe was in, and howe ſhee had freed them all from his deuouring throte. Which vnderſtoode the fiſhes all wyth one conſent gaue hir many a thanke.

The Foxe telling his tale, came to giue this counſell to the Rauen, that he ſshould goe into ſome neighbours houſe and ſteale a Ring, but fteale it that he might be ſeene take it, hopping from place to place, ſnatching here and there till he came into the Serpents hole. For by this meanes being aſpied with the maner, euery bodye woulde runne after him, and then he ſhould let it fall into the Snakes hole. They to get the Ringe againe would digge into it, and ſeeing the Serpent, they ſhould by this meanes come to kill her. The Rauen lyked the Foxes opinion, and robbed from one a Jewell of good value, and caried it thither, whither all the yonge people ranne after him, and digging the hole, the Serpent came out amongſt them, and they ſlue hir. And thus with one little reuenge he quited many injuiries done him. The Aſſe that knewe his ſubtile practiſes well ynough, aunſwered. And ſo am I of thy opinion, ſpecially if one deale with a foole, or with one that will