2i6 vESOP'S FABLES 



LXVI.— THE ONE-EYED DOE. 



Greek Prose iEsop. L'Estrange, 147. 



LXVII.— BELLING THE CAT. 



La Fontaine, ii. 2, who probably got it from Abstemius, 

 who may have derived it from the Fables of Bidpai. 

 L'Estrange, 391. It is admirably told in the Prologue 

 to Piers Plowman, texts B. and C. M. Jusserand, in his 

 recent monograph on Piers Plowman (Eng. ed, p. 43), gives 

 a representative of this fable found on the misericord of a stall 

 at Great Malvern, the site of the poem. In a conspiracy 

 against James III. of Scotland, Lord Grey narrated the 

 fable, when Archibald Earl of Angus exclaimed : " I am he 

 who will bell the cat." Hence afterwards he was called 

 Archibald Bell-the-Cat (Scott, Tales of a Grandfather, I. xix.). 

 The Cat in Plowman's apologue is John of Gaunt. Skelton 

 alludes to the fable in his Colin Clout, We get the expression 

 " bell the cat " from it. 



LXVIIL— HARE AND TORTOISE. 



L'Estrange, 133. It occurs as a folk-tale in Grimm, 

 and among the Folk in England. 



LXIX.— OLD MAN AND DEATH. 



Greek iEsop, ed. Halm, 90. Loqman, 14. La Fontaine, 

 i. 16. L'Estrange, 113. The similar fable of the 

 Messengers of Death (on which cf. Dr. Morris in Folklore 

 fournal) is certainly derived from India. 



LXX.— HARE AND MANY FRIENDS. 



An original fable of Gay's, which has perhaps retained its 

 popularity owing to the couplet : 



