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"This, I think, is from the . Aristotle, for two reasons, was a popular character in the dark ages. He was the father of their philosophy; and had been the preceptor of Alexander the Great, one of the principal heroes of romance. Nor was Aristotle himself without his romantic history; in which he falls in love with a queen of Greece, who quickly confutes his subtlest syllogisms." .

This fable of the partridge is popular; but it seems more applicable to the lapwing.

Here is a remarkable coincidence or plagiarism. Pope has given a complete and literal version of the passage in this moral.