The fable about how two animals help each other and have the moral "treat others as you would like to be treated" is one of the famous Aesop's collection of fables "The lion and the mouse". It is also considered a folktale that originally belonged to the oral tradition. Folktales which have been passed from generation to generation (such as fables, myths, legends and urban legends) intend to teach a lesson or a moral by means of animals' personification as well as their actions.
<u><em>B</em></u> would be the most reasonable answer :)
Christopher Marlowe lived from 1564 to 1593. The scientists that lived during this timeline where Galileo (1564-1642) and William Harvey (1578-1657). Copernicus and Newton did not lived during Christopher Marlowe's lifetime as the first lived from 1473 to 1543 and the second one from 1643 to 1727.
