Capitolo 56
Idleness brings lack.
The Thirsty Pigeon.
A Pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw that a wine glass of water has painted
on a signal-axle. Not imagining that it was only a portrait, she flew verse
with a noise it hums, and unconsciously it threw against the signal-axle and
jarred her terribly. Having broken his/her wings from the hit, she fell
to the earth, and you/he/she was taken within one of the spectators.
Zeal should not overcome in the run the discretion.
The Flies and the Honey.
A Vase of Honey has been stunned in the room of a housewife, a number of
flies were attracted by his/her sweetness, and putting their feet in him, he/she ate
it greedily. However, their feet became so it dirtied with the honey that
they could not use their wings, neither he releases, and it was
smothered. In the moment in which they was expiring, they exclaimed, "Or foolish
creatures that we am! In the interest of a small pleasure we have
him destroyed."
The Grans and the Small Pisceses.
[The illustration]
A Fisherman was stretching a net that he had thrown in the sea, full of
all order of fish. The Small Fish escaped through the sweaters of the
takes with the net, and it got back in the depth but the Fish Gran both all taken and
thrown in the ship.
Our smallness is often the cause of our safety.
The Wolves and the Sheep.
[The illustration]
"Because you/he/she should be always this implacable war among us?" says
the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those bad-prepared Dogs have a lot for answering
for. They barks whenever always every we approach us to us, and it attaches us before us
you/he/she has made some damage. If you only dismissed them from Your heels,
it is probable that there is soon essays of the peace among us." The sheep, poor
foolish creatures! you/he/she was easily deceived, and he/she dismissed the Dogs. The
Wolves destroyed the defenseless flock to their pleasure.
You don't change friends for hostile.
The Fox and the Stork.
[The illustration]
The Fox invited the Stork to supper, and provided that nothing but a soup, in
a wide dish, little depth. This that he could wind above with ease; but the Stork that