Editing Fables and Parables (section)

===The Neighborhood===
[[Rye]] sprouted up on land that, until then, [[fallow]] lay.<br>
But to what avail when, all about, [[bramble]] held sway.<br>
The [[soil]] was good, though it had never been touched by [[plow]];<br>
It would have brought forth [[grain]], did the bramble this allow.<br>
:Happy is the man who with equals shares his [[border]]!
Bad be [[famine]], [[war]], [[malaria|bad air]]; but worse still, bad [[Neighbourhood|neighbor]].<ref>This fable may allude to the state of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], surrounded by hostile powers, before and during the Partitions of the Commonwealth in the second half of the 18th century.  (Note in [[Ignacy Krasicki|Krasicki]], ''Bajki:  wybór'', p. 76.)</ref>