Frog

A frog and mouse agreed to settle by single combat their claims to a marsh; but, while they fought, a kite carried them both off. (Æsop: Fables, clxviii.)

Old Æsop's fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befel.

Cary: Dante, cxxiii.

Nic Frog

is the Dutchman (not Frenchman) in Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. Frogs are called “Dutch, nightingales.”

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