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Fable

The Astronomer

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

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Fable

The Bald Knight

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

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Poetry

The Banks o’ Doon

Standing by the flowering banks of Doon, the speaker reproaches the blossom and the singing bird for their brightness, recalls roving there when every bird sang of its love, and ends with a false lover who stole the rose and left the thorn.

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Proverb

The best is cheapest.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

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