Capitolo 48
the rhesus from the Aquila.
The image of Mercury and the Carpenter
A Very Poor Men, a work Carpenter they had a wood image of
Mercury in front of which he made day by day offers, and it implored
the idol to do him/it rich, but despite his/her invocations him
more poor man become and more poor man. Finally, him being very angry taken his
you imagine down from his/her pedestal and it threw him/it against the wall.
When its head knocks away, out it came to a gold brook that
the Carpenter quickly picked up and says, "Well, I think you the art
together contradictory and unreasonable; for when I paid her
honors, I didn't reap benefits: but now that I abuse her I am
loaded with an abundance of wealth."
The Taurus and the Goat
A Taurus, while escaping from a Leo, it hid in a cavern that some shepherds
you/he/she had recently occupied. He hardly entered, a He-goat went away in
the cavern brusquely attached him with its horns. The Taurus quietly
addresses him: "Makes to fit away as much as You desire. I am not afraid of
You, but of the Leo. Impediment that I show goes away and I want soon
Make her know what is the respective strength of a Goat and a
Taurus."
It shows a bad disposition to take advantage of a friend in
anguish.
The Monkeys that you/they Dance
A Prince had some Monkeys trained for dancing. Being naturally
great mimics of the actions of men, they appeared more proper
pupils, and when it ordered in their rich suits and masks, them
danced as some of the courtiers. The thick show was
repeated with the great applause, you cultivate on an occasion a courtier,
bent on damage, taken by his/her pocket a handful of walnut-trees and
throws them on the stage. The Monkeys to the sight of the walnut-trees
forgotten theirs to dance and it became (as indeed them it was) the Monkeys
instead of actors. Throwing away their masks and lacerating them
bathrobes, they fought with each other for the walnut-trees. The to dance
show ended so between the laughter and ridicule of
the public.
The Fox and the Leopard
The Fox and the Leopard disputed of what the most beautiful was