fable quotes

Storyss to rede ar delitabill, Supposs that thai be nocht but fabill.

-John Barbour
c.1375  The Brus, bk.1, l.1^2.

The nuttis schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnell, sueit and delectabill; Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch And full of frute vnder ane fenyeit fabill.

- Robert Henryson
c.1470  Moral Fables, prologue, l.15^19.

So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

- Robert Herrick
  'Corinna's Going a Maying'.