Though birds and beasts are proud and vain

DMI number:

30233

First Line:

Though birds and beasts are proud and vain

Last Line:

Can feed on you whenever we please

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet and Fable

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

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Content/Publication

Title:

Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [N67747] [ecco]

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p.21

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p.21

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Page No(s):

p.29

Poem Title:

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