XXXVI.

The flail-finned thresher and steel-beaked sword-fish

Only attempt to do what all do wish:

The thresher backs him, and to beat begins;

The sluggard whale leads to oppression,

And t' hide himself from shame and danger, down

Begins to sink: the sword-fish upwards spins,

And gores him with his beak; his staff-like fins

So well the one, his sword the other, plies,

That, now a scoff and prey, this tyrant dies,

And (his own dole) feeds with himself all companies.

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