Dyalogus Creaturarum:

RENAISSANCE WOODCUTS & FABLES

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De Symea que scribebat libros * Dyalogus.lxcvij

About the Monkey who wrote Books: Dialogue 97

YMEA, a monkey, used to write the most beautiful of books: but he was never completely whole-hearted about what he was doing. He would rather talk with other people, or listen to what they were saying, and because of that he used to spoil his books by writing in them what he was saying, or what he heard the others say. But since he refused to improve himself, no-one would offer him any work, and from his poverty he said

	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