Capitolo 58
and you/he/she was comfortably dozing after his/her work.
Perseverance is surer than the rapidity.
Jupiter and the Monkey.
Jupiter published a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, and
promised to a real reward to that whose descending the should be held
handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest, and she introduced, with all a
mother's tenderness, a young flat-nosed Monkey, without hair, sick-dalle features
as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laughter greeted her/it on
his/her child's presentation. You resolvedly said: "I don't know if
Jupiter will assign the prize to my child; but this that I know, that he is
the favorite, handsomest and more beautiful than everybody that am here."
The love of a mother blinds him to a lot of imperfections.
The Leo in Love.
[The illustration]
A Leo demanded the daughter of a woodman in marriage. His/her Father,
not prepared to grant and still frightened to refuse his/her application, stricken on this
convenient. Him expressed his/her good wish to accept him/it as the applicant of
his/her daughter on a condition; what he should allow to extract him his
teeth, and it cut his/her claws. The Leo happily consented the
proposal: however, when him next they repeated his/her application the set of woodman,
on him with his/her baton.
The miser.
[The illustration]
A Miser had a gold clot that he buried in the earth, while coming to look
to the stain every day. One day that he has founded that it was stolen, and he started
to lacerate his/her hair and noisily the complaint. A neighbor, seeing him/it, says: "You pray
you are not distressed this way; buries a stone in the hole, and images it is the gold. It
It will serve well her in the moment in which, for when the gold was there you not used
of him."
The Wolf and the Goat.
[The illustration]
A saw of Wolf a Goat that feeds to the top of a steep precipice, where him
it didn't have an opportunity to contact her/it. He called to her, and sincerely
implores him to come you lower down, so that not she owes from some misadventure gets a