Magnanimity.
The falcon never seizes any but large birds and will sooner die than eat [tainted] meat of bad savour.
II.
Fables.
Fables on animals (1265-1270).
1265.
A Fable.
An oyster being turned out together with other fish in the house of a fisherman near the sea, he entreated a rat to take him to the sea. The rat purposing to eat him bid him open; but as he bit him the oyster squeezed his head and closed; and the cat came and killed him.
1266.