The Lion and the Mouse (from John Ogilby, "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665)

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The fable of the lion and the mouse; a struggling lion caught in a net, while a mouse at right gnaws the cord attached the net to a post; behind, a lion hunt; illustration to John Ogilby's "The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorned with Sculpture and Illustrated with Annotations," London, 1665.

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