A FABLE FROM PHAEDRUS, by MATTHEW PRIORPoet's Biography
First Line: The fox an actors vizard found Last Line: Thou specious head without a brain?' Subject(s): Fables; Foxes; Allegories
THE fox an actor's vizard found, And peered, and felt, and turned it round; Then threw it in contempt away, And thus old Phaedrus heard him say: 'What noble part canst thou sustain, Thou specious head without a brain?'