Capitolo 33
[The illustration]
A Thief entered at night for storming in a house. He brought with him
a lot of slices of meat, that it is probable that he reconciles the House-dog, so that him
you/he/she should not alarm his/her master barking. As the Thief threw him/it the
pieces of meat, said the Dog: "If you think to stop my mouth to relax,
my vigilance, or also you will be to earn my respect from these gifts,
greatly wrong. This sudden gentleness to Your hands will only do me
more careful, so that not under these unexpected favors to me you have
of the private ends for to bring defeasible for Your really benefit, and for mine
master's damage. Besides, this is not the time that I am usually fed,
what me ago all the more suspects of Your intentions."
He who offer to observe of necessity of gifts, for his/her intentions it is not honest.
The Ill male Buck.
[The illustration]
A disposition of male Buck gotten sick down in a calm angle of his/her pasture-earth. His
companions entered the great numbers to ask after his/her health and each
one helped him to an action of the food that had been put for his
use; this way that he died, not from his/her illness, but from the failure of the
he/she means to live.
The bad companions bring more hurt that the profit.
The Fowler and the Ringdove.
A Fowler took his/her gun, and it went to the woods a shooting. He spied a
Ringdove among the branches of an oak and agreements to kill him/it. Him
beaten the piece to his/her shoulder, and taken accordingly his/her purpose. But,
in the moment in which him to throw the trigger was going, an adder that he had trod
on under the grass, it so painfully stung him/it in the leg that he was
forced to end his/her sketch, and it threw down his/her gun in a passion. The
poison immediately infected its blood, and its whole body started
you mortify; what, when he perceived, he could not help possessing to be him/it
only. "Destinies", it said him, it has "brought the destruction on me while I was
contriving the death of another."
Men fall in the trap that they often prepares for others.