The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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as he drowned.  
The spider wishing to take flies in her treacherous net, was cruelly  
killed in it by the hornet.  
An eagle wanting to mock at the owl was caught by the wings in  
bird-lime and was taken and killed by a man.  
Fables on lifeless objects (1271--1274).  
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The water finding that its element was the lordly ocean, was seized  
with a desire to rise above the air, and being encouraged by the  
element of fire and rising as a very subtle vapour, it seemed as  
though it were really as thin as air. But having risen very high, it  
reached the air that was still more rare and cold, where the fire  
forsook it, and the minute particles, being brought together, united  
and became heavy; whence its haughtiness deserting it, it betook  
itself to flight and it fell from the sky, and was drunk up by the  
dry earth, where, being imprisoned for a long time, it did penance  
for its sin.  
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A FABLE.  
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