{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1233.htm","path":"aor/dv/1233.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1233.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe falcon, by reason of its haughtiness and pride, is fain to lord it and rule over all the other birds of prey, and longs to be sole and supreme; and very often the falcon has been seen to assault the eagle, the Queen of birds.\nThe wild ass, when it goes to the well to drink, and finds the water troubled, is never so thirsty but that it will abstain from drinking, and wait till the water is clear again.\nThe vulture is so addicted to gluttony that it will go a thousand miles to eat a carrion [carcase]; therefore is it that it follows armies.","title":"Vol. II: XX. Humorous Writings: 1233.","type":"page"}