Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni=--I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
The device itself, in these three authors, is a representation of Hares biting a dead Lion; and in this we find an origin for the words used in King John (act ii.
Greek author, which Hector is supposed to have uttered as he was dragged by the Grecian chariot,— “Now after my death ye pierce my body; The very hares are bold to insult a dead lion.
Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work is at least a caged and toothless one.
For the Preacher loved life, and did not want to die, saying, 'For a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
A living dog is better than a dead lion, say I with the Preacher.
Proverb, a living dog better than a dead lion, 404.
James), a living dog better than a dead lion, 404.
Ecclesiastes on living dog better than a dead lion, 376.
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