」師曠曰:「鵲食蝟,蝟食鵔鸃,鵔鸃食豹,豹食駮,駮食虎。
夫駮之狀有似駮馬。
Turning to Musicmaster Kuang, he said, “I have heard that, when a chief of the lords goes forth, wild beasts will crouch before him, not daring to arise.
今者君之出,必驂駮馬而出畋乎?
」公曰:「然。
Now I have gone forth and seen a tiger cub crouching motionless.
」師曠曰:「臣聞之,一自誣者窮,再自誣者辱,三自誣者死。
今夫虎所以不動者,為駮馬也,固非主君之德義也。
君奈何一自誣乎?」
Is this the sort of wild beast referred to in the saying?” “Magpies eat hedgehogs,” said Musicmaster Kuang, “and hedgehogs eat the xunyi bird.