The Ass In The Lion's Skin.

"IF once in love, you'll soon invention find     And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;     The youngest 'prentice, when he feels the dar"

"THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease     Both names and titles, freely as they please.     It costs them scarcely any thing, we find.     A"

"[1]      The lion's consort died:      Crowds, gather'd at his side,      Must needs console the prince,      And thus their loyalty evince"

"Among the beasts a feud arose.      The lion, as the story goes,      Once on a time laid down      His sceptre and his crown;      And in hi"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"