The Cock and the Jewel. "No doubt you are very costly and he … But for me, give me a single grain of corn before all the jewels in the world. said he, "a fine thing you are, no doubt, and, had your owner found you, great would his joy have been. [1] The fable is typically short and given in eight lines of elegaic metre with a further two providing a moral judgement. This was generally committed to memory in early school years. [9], In La Fontaine's Fables it is given a materialist twist by likening the cock to those who are incapable of judging the 'intrinsic worth' of anything (I.20). “The Cock and the Emerald” most certainly owes some of its prominence … 1 art print : engraving ; 23 x 17 cm. ไก่ได้พลอย A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. Small (300px) Standard (760px) Order. Hollar_k_0369 still image. Art Print. -- Aesop's Fables and Ogilby's Aesopicks. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. View Full Item. A Cock was busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by its owner. "Ho!" But for me! “Ho!” said he, “a fine thing you are, no doubt, and, had your owner found you, great would his joy have been. All the wisdom it might symbolise, from his practical point of view, is no better than speculation on 'how the man came first into the moon'. He unexpectedly a glittery jewel on the floor. George Arents Collection, The New York Public Library. A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. Although the Aesopian tale of The Cock and the Jewel, which Henryson re-tells, is typically simple, it is one of the most ambiguous in the fable canon. said he, "you are a very fine thing, no doubt, to those who prize you; but give me a barley-corn before all the pearls in the world." MLA Format. A Cock (Rooster) looks for food but finds a jewel and throws it aside as unwanted. The Cock and the Jewel Story. said the Cock. After two and half hours I had what you saw, He just paused to explainThat a jewel’s no goodTo a fowl wanting food,And then kicked it aside with disdain. As a trope in literature, the fable is reminiscent of stories used in zen such as the kōan. And why may it not be said, how delighted are the fair sex, when, from among a crowd of empty, frolicsome, conceited admirers, they find out and distinguish with their good opinion, a man of sense, with a plain, unaffected person, which, at first sight, they did not like. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? said the Cock. I searched moral stories on Google, and started working. Thomas Bewick applies the fable to the choice of sexual partner in his Select Fables of Aesop (1784),[11] while the Canadian author Robertson Davies converts it to a playlet satirising devotees of the Readers Digest in his A Masque of Aesop (1955). “The Cock and the Jewel” is the first fable of the Ysopet-Avionnet where it is entitled “Du coc et de l’esmeraude” (“The Cock and the Emerald”), in old French, and “De Gallo et Iaspide,” in Latin. He that’s industrious in an honest calling, shall never fail of a blessing. The Cock And The Jewel book. Fables are added to the site as they are found in public domain sources; not all of them came from Aesop. Gallaher, Ltd., Belfast and London, 1921-1929. The cock makes the observation that a rich man would have known how to make proper use of the gem it has uncovered, whereas "since I can't embellish you as I would like, I'll not wear you at all." cried the cock and said, "It looks very fine and it may be valuable to some people. On discovering a jacinth in the dunghill, the Cock rejects keeping it as being contrary to his natural station in life. Corpus ID: 201012394. The moral here in Aesop’s mindWas this, there’s not a doubt;Things have most value which we findWe cannot do without. [10] According to his reading of the fable, what the man and the cock lack is aesthetic judgement rather than wisdom. There are several people in the world, that pass, with some, for well-accomplished gentlemen, and very pretty fellows, though they are as great strangers to the true uses of virtue and knowledge, as the Cock upon the dunghill is to the real value of the jewel. Copyright 2014-2021 Tom Simondi, All Rights Reserved. Digital ID . Partner The New York Public Library. “Oh, why,” said he, “should I find this glistening thing? He begins the Prologue to his Isopes Fabules with the statement that "Wisdom is more in price than gold in coffers" but turns that to mean that beneath the "boysterous and rurall" fable hide valuable lessons for life, so anticipating the Cock's eventual find. It is one of a number that feature only a single animal. While doing so, he chanced to turn over a stone and find a shining gem under it. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.” “You may be a treasure,” quoth Master Cock, “to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.”. Division. "No doubt you are very costly and he … But scarce a minute had he scratch’d,When, to his great surprise,A gem, with golden chain attach’d,He saw with both his eyes. Honest, undesigning good sense is so unfashionable, that he must be a bold man, who at this time of day attempts to bring it into esteem. Lydgate then comments that the Cock has made the wisest choice in rejecting worldliness and preferring virtue. The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. Copy. But for me! A Cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been dropped there. A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. All download options. A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. Classification . The Cock and the Jewel is a fable attributed to Aesop. If some jeweller had found it he would have been beside himself with joy at the thought of its value; but to me it is of no manner of use, nor do I care one jot about it; why, I would rather have one grain of barley than all the jewels in the world.”if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-fablesofaesop_com-box-4-0')}; if(typeof __ez_fad_position != 'undefined'){__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-fablesofaesop_com-banner-1-0')};A Cock was busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by its owner. As a trope in literature, the fable is reminiscent of stories used in zen such as the kōan. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world." The Cock and the Jewel is a fable attributed to Aesop.It is one of a number that feature only a single animal. "Aha!" A Cock was busily scratching and scraping about to find something to eat for himself and his family, when he happened to turn up a precious jewel that had been lost by its owner. George Arents Collection. In its most cogent, unelaborated form, the fable is very short. A brisk young Cock scratching for something with which to entertain his favourite hens, happened to turn up a jewel. For him the state of nature is limited by brute appetite; it requires wisdom to discern the way of learning and virtue. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world." Well (says he to himself) this sparkling foolery now to a lapidary in my place, would have been the making of him; but as to any use or purpose of mine, a barley-corn had been worth forty on’t. As a trope in literature, the fable is reminiscent of stories used in zen such as the kōan.It presents, in effect, a riddle on relative values and is capable of many interpretations, depending on the point of view from which it is regarded. Precious things are without value to those who cannot prize them. 300px. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The lesson inculcated is the wisdom of estimating things by their intrinsic worth, and of refusing to be led away by doubtful fascinations from the known path of duty. The rejection is generally shown in the form of a direct address by the cockerel to the gemstone, as in this modern English translation: A Cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been dropped there. [4] Some three centuries later, the periodical writer John Hawkesworth adapted the story to a similar moral in an extended poem, "The Fop, Cock, and Diamond", in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1741. 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