Dyalogus Creaturarum:

RENAISSANCE WOODCUTS & FABLES

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De Lupo et Azino * Dyalogus.lcvij

About the Wolf and the Donkey: Dialogue 107

UPUS, the wolf, and Azinus, the donkey were sawing a plank together, and Azinus was happily working up above. Lupus, however, kept himself craftily down below, watching for an opportunity to make a meal of the donkey. He tried to pick a quarrel with Azinus by saying that the donkey was letting sawdust fly into his eyes, and threatening to claw out the other's eyes if he didn't stop: and then he treacherously blew sawdust up towards Azinus' eyes - but because of the way the planks were sitting close together, the sawdust fell back down again into Lupus' own eyes.

Writhing in pain, he swore he would pull the whole scaffolding down: but it was the saw blade which fell, onto the wolf, giving him his death blow. Azinus escaped unhurt, quoting the old rhyme,

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	Eight Stories: About Laurus, the Sea-Eagle About the Pheasant and the Peacock About the Owl who wanted to rule over the Birds About the Countryman and the Bees About the Lion who built a Priory About the Donkey-Centaur who built a Palace About the Monkey who wrote Books About the Wolf and the Donkey
Introduction	Original editions	Johan Snell's printing