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Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise.
Auec la vie dudit Esope extraite de plusieurs autheurs par M. Antoine du Moulin Masconnois.
A Lyon, Par Iean de Tournes, & Guillaume Gazeau. 1547.

Fable 17. Des Grenouilles & de leur Roy.
(Honorer le bon Prince.)

For the Reader: A selection of Translations (mostly English), being those on hand at this writing..
Edition   Citation   Fable Title
Julien Macho, Lyon, 1480   II, 1, fig. 52   not reproduced
William Caxton, tr. (Steinhöwel) 1483   II, 1   of the frogges and of Iupiter
Roger L'Estrange, tr, 1692   p. 77   The Frogs chuse a King
Thomas Bewick, illus., 1818   p. 135   The Frogs and their King
S.A. Handford, trans., 1954        
Edwin Perry, ed., trans. Barbrius and Phaedrus, 1965   p.d 193 (Ph. I, 2)   The Frogs ask for a King
Olivia and Robert Temple (Chambry numbering), 1998   p. 53, no. 66   The Frogs Who Demanded a King
Laura Gibbs, Aesop text project (WWW) Site active in 2002.   Perry 44    
Townsend   51   The Frogs Asking for a King
La Fontaine   III-4   Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi