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    "The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous", also known as "The Twa Mice," is a Middle Scots adaptation of Aesop's Fable The Town Mouse and...
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    treatments of the story vary widely. The Scottish Henryson's The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous makes the two mice sisters. The one in the country...
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    in the 1933 Russian novel The German Quarter by Lev Nitoburg. The fable also appears in the 1944 novel The Hunter of the Pamirs, and this is the earliest...
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  • Burgess (title) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Borough and Burg "The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous", a poem from Scotland which partly satirised the class. Burgage Chisholm, Hugh, ed...
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    in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent...
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  • and the Lion The Cat and the Mice The Crab and the Fox The Cock and the Jewel The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Crow and the Pitcher The Crow and the...
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  • Thumbnail for The Cock and the Jasp
    "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" is a Middle Scots version of Aesop's Fable The Cock and the Jewel by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson...
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  • Thumbnail for The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe
    "The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe" is Fabill 3 of Robert Henryson's cycle of thirteen Morall Fabillis composed in Scotland in the later fifteenth...
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