A beautiful, rare steel engraving showing Reynard stealing from the Friar's table - he gives this reason why...:

There dwells a priest, than whom around,
No richer man is to be found;-
Within his ample well-filled store,
A hundred hams were found, or more,
And juicy flitches many a score.
As round about the house we prowl,
Isegrim (the Wolf) finds a narrow hole,
through which he well could creep within,
and fill at ease his empty skin;
Nought hinder'd me from entering too,
But I another end in view -
I sought to bring the Wolf to shame,
And what I hoped for quickly came -
He ate so much that all in vain,
He sought to pass the hole again; -
When he was hungry and thin,
The chink had freely let him in;
But now that he was full and stout,
'Twas far too small to let him out.

When Isegrim was fairly caught,
To rouse the neighbourhood I sought;
For this, I'd formed a cunning plan -
Into the Parson's house I ran,
Who even then at supper sat,
And carved at ease, a capon fat,
Well roasted too and brown.
At once I seized the savoury bird -
You should the Parson's voice have heard!
As springing up with angry roar,
He kicked the well spread table o'er
And plates and dished strew'd the floor; -
His cries soon raised the town!