Vows are not made till Hope is dead.
Motion tends towards the centre of gravity.
1264.
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