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A FABLE FROM PHAEDRUS, by                     Poet'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?'





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