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Whale

Sailors mistake the back of a whale for an island and land their ship on it and build a cooking fire. When the whale feels the heat it dives, drowning the sailors. [From the Bestiaire d'amour in verse]

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France Digitized Manuscripts

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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 1951 (Bestiaire d'amour rimé), folio 30r

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