Edward III of England the Good Parliament were reversed. Edward did not have much to do with any of this; after around 1375 he played a limited role in the government of the realm. Around 29 September 1376 he fell ill with a large abscess. After a brief period of recovery in February 1377, the king died of a stroke at Sheen on 21 June. He was succeeded by his ten-year-old grandson, King Richard II, son of the Black Prince, since the Black Prince himself had died on 8 June 1376. The middle years of Edward's reign were a period of significant legislative activity.
The Frogs Who Desired a King has become a willing plaything of the frogs as they gleefully hop onto his back and use his bill as a water-slide. The majority of allusions to Aesop's fable contrast the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork. They include a reference by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in his novel "The House of the Seven Gables" (1851) and several in novels by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein, who often featured political situations there. The fable was also pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn