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    "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" is a Middle Scots version of Aesop's Fable The Cock and the Jewel by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson...
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    The Scorpion and the Frog is an animal fable which teaches that vicious people cannot resist hurting others even when it is not in their own interests...
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  • and the Fox The Cock and the Jewel The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Crow and the Pitcher The Crow and the Sheep The Crow and the Snake The Deer without...
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    The Cock and the Jasp, on the STELLA Teaching Resources website of the University of Glasgow. Transcript of the printed edition by Caxton, on the 'Aesopica'...
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    Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true...
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    Robert Henryson (category People associated with the University of Glasgow)
    01 The Cock and the Jasp 02 The Twa Mice 03 The Cock and the Fox 04 The Confession of the Tod 05 The Trial of the Tod 06 The Sheep and the Dog 07 The Lion...
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    opens the Morall Fabillis is The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp. It has three parts: a prologue, the tale itself, and a moral. The Prolog introduces the whole...
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