The Hawk and the Nightingale

by Laurentius Abstemius

Versions of The Hawk and the Nightingale include:

• "Of the Nyghtyngale and of the Sperehawke", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Nightingale and a Hawk", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Hawk and the Nightingale", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Nightingale and the Hawk", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)