The Old Lion
A Lion, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on the
 ground at the point of death. A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged
 with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury. Shortly afterwards
 the Bull with his horns gored him as if he were an enemy. When the
 Ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let
 drive at his forehead with his heels. The expiring Lion said, "I have
 reluctantly brooked the insults of the brave, but to be compelled
 to endure such treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed
 to die a double death." 
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