The Cock, the Dog and the Fox are of La Fontaine's fables, the dog is shown running in from the distance. La Fontaine's version of the fable has also been set by several composers: The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Cock, the Dog and the Fox is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 252 in the Perry Index. Although it has similarities with other fables where a predator flatters a bird, such as The Fox and the Crow and Chanticleer and the Fox, in this one the cock is the victor rather than victim. There are also Eastern variants of this story. In
Reynard the Fox was French-speaking ("Walschen" in Middle Dutch referred to northern French-speaking people, specifically the Walloons). Willem's work became one of the standard versions of the legend, and was the foundation for most later adaptations in Dutch, German, and English, including those of William Caxton, Goethe, and F. S. Ellis. Geoffrey Chaucer used Reynard material in the "Canterbury Tales"; in "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Reynard appears as "Rossel" and an ass as "Brunel". In 1481 William Caxton printed "The Historie of Reynart the Foxe", which was translated from "Van den vos Reynaerde". Also in the 1480s, the Scottish poet Robert Henryson devised