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Mother Hubberd’s Tale

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history of fables

  • limestone ostracon depicting a cat, a boy, and a mouse magistrate
    In fable, parable, and allegory: Beast epic

    …of material; in his “Mother Hubberd’s Tale,” published in 1591, a fox and an ape go off to visit the court, only to discover that life is no better there than in the provinces. More sage and serious, John Dryden’s poem of “The Hind and Panther” (1687) revived the…

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