How the beasts objected to the proposal of the hare.

1005 The company (of beasts) said to him: “O donkey, listen (to us)! Keep thyself within the measure of a hare!

Eh, what brag is this—(an idea) which thy betters never brought into their minds?

Thou art self-conceited, or Destiny is pursuing us; else, how is this speech suitable to one like thee?”