The Labourer and the Nightingale

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  "title": "The Labourer and the Nightingale",
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  "collection": "Aesop's Fables",
  "published_date": "June 6, 2015",
  "regions": [
    "Greek"
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  "reading_level": "Easy",
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  "body": [
    "A Labourer lay listening to a Nightingale’s song throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. “Now that I have caught thee,” he cried, “thou shalt always sing to me.”",
    "“We Nightingales never sing in a cage.” said the bird.",
    "“Then I’ll eat thee.” said the Labourer. “I have always heard say that a nightingale on toast is dainty morsel.”",
    "“Nay, kill me not,” said the Nightingale; “but let me free, and I’ll tell thee three things far better worth than my poor body.”",
    "The Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of a tree and said: “Never believe a captive’s promise; that’s one thing. Then again: Keep what you have. And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost forever.”",
    "Then the song-bird flew away."
  ],
  "body_text": "A Labourer lay listening to a Nightingale’s song throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. “Now that I have caught thee,” he cried, “thou shalt always sing to me.”\n\n“We Nightingales never sing in a cage.” said the bird.\n\n“Then I’ll eat thee.” said the Labourer. “I have always heard say that a nightingale on toast is dainty morsel.”\n\n“Nay, kill me not,” said the Nightingale; “but let me free, and I’ll tell thee three things far better worth than my poor body.”\n\nThe Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to a branch of a tree and said: “Never believe a captive’s promise; that’s one thing. Then again: Keep what you have. And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost forever.”\n\nThen the song-bird flew away.",
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