fut jugée un cas pendable 'was deemed worthy of death

62. In a work entitled 'Fables from La Fontaine, in English verse' published in 1820, au anonymous writer gives a very spirited version of the ass's confession. We reproduce it hère. It will be seen that it is an imitation rather than a translation :

At length the ass came to confession, And thus denounced his own transgression: "On thorny thistles starv'd and sad dock, I chanced to pass the parson's paddock; The sacred sward seem'd sweet and green, My appetite I own was keen, And fair occasion urg'd to revel — Or might it not bave been the devil?

Whate'er it were. — I cropp'd a blade — I own 't was wrong — we must speak out: I was a trespasser, no doubt!"

Notes. 111

A gênerai roar of indignation Follow'd the donkey's déclaration — "What crop the close! the parson's toc! For this can less than death be due?

When thorns and thistles grew so plenty Could nothing but the glèbe content yeV From such a sin but death can purge ye — Death without benefit of clergy!" Line 63 — 64. Thèse two Unes forrn a familiar quotation in French.

LXm. LE HÉRON.

Line 4. aussi qui, 'as'.