經曆了歲月考驗和疾病折磨的老獅子精疲力竭地躺在地上，似乎在等待生命最後時刻的降臨。一頭野豬為了報一腳之仇快速地襲擊了他。繼而，公牛又把他鋒利的角插入了獅子的身體。驢子看到野豬和公牛都沒有受到懲罰，也壯著膽子狠狠地踢了獅子的額頭。垂死的獅子說： “以前我絕不會讓強者來嘲弄我，如今連你們這些大自然的敗類也可以來隨意欺辱我，這真是我雙重的悲哀啊 !”
隻有懦夫才會趁火打劫。
A Lion，worn out owerless from disease，lay on the grou of death. A Boar rushed upon him，ah a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury. Shortly afterwards the Bull with his hored him as if he were an ehe Ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impu drive at his forehead with his heels. The expiring Lion said，“I have relutly brooked the insults of the brave，but to be pelled to ereatment from thee，a disgraature，is io die a double death.”
Only sult dyiy.