010. THE ROOSTERS AND THE PARTRIDGE. You will find the fable in English on this page; scroll to see if there are multiple English versions. [more info]
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The Partridge and the Cocks
061. THE PARTRIDGE AND THE COCKS. A certain man having taken a partridge, plucked some of the feathers out of its wings, and turned it into a little yard where he kept gamecocks. The cocks for a while made the poor bird lead a sad life, continually pecking and driving it away from the meat. This treatment was taken more unkindly, because offered to a stranger; and the partridge could not but conclude them the most inhospitable, uncivil people he had ever met with.
But at last observing how frequently they quarrelled and fought with each other, he comforted himself with this reflection: that it was no wonder they were cruel to him, since there was so much bickering and animosity among themselves. [more info]
But at last observing how frequently they quarrelled and fought with each other, he comforted himself with this reflection: that it was no wonder they were cruel to him, since there was so much bickering and animosity among themselves. [more info]
The Fighting Cocks and Partridge
089. THE FIGHTING COCKS AND PARTRIDGE.
The Partridge grievs the Cock shoud use her ill,
But when she found they did each other kill,
She siging cryd, no wonder me th'annoy
Who do maliciously themselves destroy.
Morall
Mallice in men breeds to themselves more wo
Than their ill nature can in others do.
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The Partridge grievs the Cock shoud use her ill,
But when she found they did each other kill,
She siging cryd, no wonder me th'annoy
Who do maliciously themselves destroy.
Morall
Mallice in men breeds to themselves more wo
Than their ill nature can in others do.
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The Partridge and the Cocks
10.08: THE PARTRIDGE AND THE COCKS.
With a set of uncivil and turbulent cocks,
That deserved for their noise to be put in the stocks,
A partridge was placed to be rear'd.
Her sex, by politeness revered,
Made her hope, from a gentry devoted to love,
For the courtesy due to the tenderest dove;
Nay, protection chivalric from knights of the yard.
That gentry, however, with little regard
For the honours and knighthood wherewith they were deck'd,
And for the strange lady as little respect,
Her ladyship often most horribly peck'd.
At first, she was greatly afflicted therefor,
But when she had noticed these madcaps at war
With each other, and dealing far bloodier blows,
Consoling her own individual woes,—
'Entail'd by their customs,' said she, 'is the shame;
Let us pity the simpletons rather than blame.
Our Maker creates not all spirits the same;
The cocks and the partridges certainly differ,
By a nature than laws of civility stiffer.
Were the choice to be mine, I would finish my life
In society freer from riot and strife.
But the lord of this soil has a different plan;
His tunnel our race to captivity brings,
He throws us with cocks, after clipping our wings.
'Tis little we have to complain of but man.'
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With a set of uncivil and turbulent cocks,
That deserved for their noise to be put in the stocks,
A partridge was placed to be rear'd.
Her sex, by politeness revered,
Made her hope, from a gentry devoted to love,
For the courtesy due to the tenderest dove;
Nay, protection chivalric from knights of the yard.
That gentry, however, with little regard
For the honours and knighthood wherewith they were deck'd,
And for the strange lady as little respect,
Her ladyship often most horribly peck'd.
At first, she was greatly afflicted therefor,
But when she had noticed these madcaps at war
With each other, and dealing far bloodier blows,
Consoling her own individual woes,—
'Entail'd by their customs,' said she, 'is the shame;
Let us pity the simpletons rather than blame.
Our Maker creates not all spirits the same;
The cocks and the partridges certainly differ,
By a nature than laws of civility stiffer.
Were the choice to be mine, I would finish my life
In society freer from riot and strife.
But the lord of this soil has a different plan;
His tunnel our race to captivity brings,
He throws us with cocks, after clipping our wings.
'Tis little we have to complain of but man.'
[more info]
The Partridge and the Cocks
089. THE PARTRIDGE AND THE COCKS. A certain man having taken a partridge, plucked some of the feathers out of its wings, and turned it into a little yard where he kept gamecocks. The cocks for a while made the poor bird lead a sad life, continually pecking and driving it away from the meat. This treatment was taken more unkindly, because offered to a stranger; and the partridge could not but conclude them the most inhospitable, uncivil people he had ever met with.
But at last observing how frequently they quarrelled and fought with each other, he comforted himself with this reflection: that it was no wonder they were cruel to him, since there was so much bickering and animosity among themselves. [more info]
But at last observing how frequently they quarrelled and fought with each other, he comforted himself with this reflection: that it was no wonder they were cruel to him, since there was so much bickering and animosity among themselves. [more info]
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