A Stag and A Lion

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A Stag and A Lion

Everything, including death, can be done easy or hard.

L'Estrange version

A stag that was close pursu'd by huntsmen, fled for safety into a lyons den; and as he was just expiring under the paw of the lyon: Miserable creature that I am, says he, to fly for protection from men, to the most unmerciful of beasts!

Moral

There are harder and gentler wayes, even of ruine it selfe; as 'tis common we see for men under a capital sentence to petition even for the change of the death.

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