Trente-six fables d'Ésope/L'aigle et le renard
La fable d'Ésope | Le quatrain de Bensérade | ||
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Compères et voisins assez mal assortis À la tentation tous deux ils succombèrent, Car l'aigle du renard enleva les petits, Et le renard mangea les aiglons qui tombèrent. |
La fontaine de Versailles Un tronc d'arbre parfaitement bien imité
Ici, vous voyez le tronc d'un grand arbre, |
Le texte d'origine en anglais
HERE you view the Body of a large Tree, as lively as imitation of Nature as art can possibly devise ; and thereupon is fixed a large Vase or Bason composed of brass, but elegantly guilt ; on the margin whereof divers EAGLES are ranged in a crcular form : – The FOX, whom they had robbed of his Cubs, is planted at the foot of the Tree, holding a well-lighted torch in his mouth, menacing, in revenge, to burn down their House directly, in case they made not immediate restitution. And from the center of the Vase above, arises a large stream of water, resembling a flame, as if he had carried his rage
and resentment into actual execution.