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  • He bowed low and said, “This fat ox will be thy food at breakfast, O excellent King, 3105
  • And that goat will be a portion reserved for the victorious King at midday,
  • And the hare too for supper—(to be) the repast at nightfall of the gracious and bountiful King.”
  • Said the lion, “O fox, thou hast made justice shine forth: from whom didst thou learn to divide in such a manner?
  • Whence didst thou learn this, O eminent one?” “O King of the world,” he replied, “(I learned it) from the fate of the wolf.”
  • The lion said, “Inasmuch as thou hast become pledged to love of me, pick up all the three (animals), and take (them) and depart. 3110
  • O fox, since thou hast become entirely mine, how should I hurt thee when thou hast become myself?
  • I am thine, and all the beasts of chase are thine: set thy foot on the Seventh Heaven and mount (beyond)!
  • Since thou hast taken warning from (the fate of) the vile wolf, thou art not a fox: thou art my own lion.
  • The wise man is he that in (the hour of) the shunned tribulation takes warning from the death of his friends.”