The Dove and The Crow

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The Dove and The Crow

Many children are a great blessing; but a few good ones are a greater.

Townsend version

A dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: "My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house."

L'Estrange version

A pigeon that was brought up in a dove-house, was bragging to a crow how fruitful she was. Never value your self says the crow upon that vanity; for the more children, the more sorrow.

Moral

Many children are a great blessing; but a few good ones are a greater; all hazzards consider' d.

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