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<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="frontispiece">
<PB REF="1">
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a fool wading through water carrying two goslings in his hand and several in his belt</FIGDESC>
<LG>
<L>A Fool &s;ent out to fetch the Go&s;lings home,</L>
<L>When they unto a Rivers brink were come,</L>
<L>Through which their Pa&s;&s;age lay, was in much fear</L>
<L>His Dames be&s;t Brood might have been drowned there,</L>
<L>Which to avoid he thus did &s;hew his Wit,</L>
<L>And his good Nature in preventing it,</L>
<L>He underneath his Girdle thru&s;ts their Heads,</L>
<L>And then the Coxcomb through the Water wades.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Folly we deride, and yet may be</L>
<L>Guilty of Fooleries as great as he.</L>
<L>Therefore to Bea&s;ts and Birds we here are brought,</L>
<L>Morality and Wi&s;dom to be taught.</L>
</LG>
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</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>Delightful FABLES In Pro&s;e and Ver&s;e. None of them to be found in <HI>Ae&s;op;</HI> But Collected from divers Ancient and Mo|dern Authors; With Pictures, and proper Morals to every Fable, &s;ome very pertinent to the pre&s;ent Times. Publi&s;hed as a means which in all Ages hath been found u&s;eful for plea&s;ure, and likewi&s;e for In&s;truction in the pru|dent conduct of our Lives and Actions.</P>
<P>By <HI>R. B.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Licen&s;ed and Entred.</HI></P>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>printer's device showing a bell</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Nath. Crouch</HI> at the <HI>Bell</HI> in the <HI>Poultrey</HI> near <HI>Cheap&s;ide.</HI> 1691.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the READER.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FAbles in all Ages, and by many wi&s;e Men have been accounted excellent ways of in|&s;truction; Neither ought we to think that they were invented only to plea&s;e Children, &s;ince if well con&s;idered, we may find many excellent Precepts in Philo&s;ophy, Morality and Policy contained in them. But that which gives a full an&s;wer to this Objection is the many Parables&punc; or Fables contained in Holy Writ, and wi&s;ely contrived for convincing Men of their Folly and Impiety.</HI></P>
<P><HI>What el&s;e is that of</HI> the Thi&s;tle which &s;ent Amba&s;&s;adors to the Cedar that was in <HI>Lebanon,</HI> &s;aying, Give me thy Daughter in Marriage to my Son, and to puni&s;h this pride of the Thi&s;tle, a wild Bea&s;t of the Forre&s;t coming thither trod it down and de&s;troyed it?</P>
<P><HI>Or that which pa&s;&s;ed among the Trees when they a&s;&s;embled together to chu&s;e a King?</HI> Judges 9.8. The Trees went forth on a time to chu&s;e a King over them, and they &s;aid to the Olive Tree, Reign thou over us; But the Olive Tree &s;aid unto them, Should I leave my Fat|ne&s;s wherewith by me they honour God and Man, and go to be promoted over the Trees? And the Trees &s;aid to the Fig-Tree, Come thou and Reign over us; but the Fig-Tree &s;aid unto them, Should I for&s;ake my &s;weetne&s;s, and my good Fruit, and go to be promoted over the
<PB REF="3"> Trees? Then &s;aid the Trees unto the Vine, Come thou, and Reign over us; and the Vine &s;aid unto them, Shall I leave my Wine which cheereth God and Man, and go to be promo|ted over the Trees? Then &s;aid all the Trees to the Bramble, Come thou and reign over us; and the Bramble &s;aid unto the Trees, If in truth you anoint me to be King over you, then come and put your tru&s;t in my &s;hadow; and if not, let Fire come out of the Bramble and de&s;troy the Cedars of
<HI>Lebanon.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And what was the Me&s;&s;age that God &s;ent by</HI> Nathan <HI>to</HI> David <HI>after his Adultery with</HI> Bath|&s;heba, <HI>and his Murder of</HI> Uriah, <HI>to convince him of his great Crimes, when the Prophet tells him,</HI> That there was a Rich Man who had ex|ceeding many Flocks and Herds, but the Poor Man had nothing, &s;ave one little poor Ewe Lamb which he had brought and nouri&s;hed up, and it grew up together with him, and with his Children; it did eat of his own Bread, and drank of his own Cup, and lay in his Bo|&s;om, and was unto him as a Daughter; And there came a Traveller to the Rich Man, and he &s;pared to take of his own Flock, and of his own Herd to dre&s;s for the Way-faring Man that was come to him; <HI>What were the&s;e but my&s;terious Relations whereby the Divine Spirit touched the Heart of that great King, and brought him to repentance?</HI></P>
<P><PB REF="3"><HI>In &s;hort, when our Ble&s;&s;ed Lord was upon Earth, what were his di&s;cour&s;es to the hard-heart|ed and rebellious Jews, but only Parables, for it is &s;aid,</HI> Without a Parable &s;pake he not; <HI>&s;o that Je&s;us Chri&s;t who was Truth it &s;elf thought fit to make u&s;e of this method, as knowing that Truth could be no way more n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">bly, nor profitably repre|&s;ented than by them. And though Fables may &s;eem ridiculous for their bringing in Bea&s;ts, Birds and Trees &s;peaking to each other, yet they are to be highly e&s;teemed for the Wi&s;dom and Knowledge contained in them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And therefore the Famous Orator</HI> Demo&s;the|nes, <HI>when he ob&s;erved the carele&s;s demeanour of the Judges of</HI> Athens <HI>at the Tryal of Capital Of|fenders; He by a Fable did &s;harply reprimand their unconcernedne&s;s; And &s;uddenly cried out a|loud,</HI> O ye Judges, I will tell you a very &s;trange Story, if you plea&s;e, of the &s;hadow of an A&s;s; At which the Judges gave great Attention, and commanding &s;ilence bid him proceed. There was a young Man, &s;aith the Oratour, who in an hot Sea&s;on hired an A&s;s to carry &s;ome Goods, and about Noon being very faint with the heat, he took off his Load intending to lye down and re|fre&s;h him&s;elf under the &s;hadow of the A&s;s, which the Owner, who went with him to bring back his Bea&s;t would not permit, alledging, that tho' he hired the A&s;s, yet he had paid nothing for the
<PB REF="4"> &s;hadow of him; The young Man pleaded, that having given him Money for his A&s;s the whole day, he might make what u&s;e of him he plea&s;ed; The controver&s;ie at length grew high, which at la&s;t ended in a quarrel, wherein they both &s;e|verely beat each other, which yet could not de|termine the matter, &s;o that they re&s;olved to bring it to a Tryal at Law. <HI>When the Oratour perceiv|ed the Court very attentive to the Fable he &s;ud|denly &s;topt, and was going away, but being recalled, and de&s;ired by the Judges to proceed in his Story;</HI> Are you,
<HI>&s;aid he,</HI> &s;o willing to hear an idle Tale of the &s;hadow of an A&s;s, and yet &s;o negli|gent in regarding a Cau&s;e wherein the Life of a Man is concerned. <HI>Which &s;evere Reproof &s;o af|fected the Judges, that they were afterward very diligent in examining the matter before them.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As to the en&s;uing Fables I have related none that are to be found in</HI> Ae&s;op, <HI>but they are collect|ed from divers Ancient and Modern Authors, which I have put into ea&s;ie Engli&s;h both in Pro&s;e and Ver&s;e, with Pictures to each Fable, whereby they may delight and profit ingenious Readers both old and young, and not only occa&s;ion them to laugh, but give them whole&s;ome In&s;tructions for the prudent government of their Lives and Acti|ons; &s;o that neither they nor I may have cau&s;e to repent our pains, which is the de&s;ire of</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="1" REF="4">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. I.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a monkey and a cat by a fireplace</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Monkey,</HI> the <HI>Cat,</HI> and the <HI>Che&s;nuts.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Monkey ob&s;erving his Ma&s;ter to lay &s;ome Che&s;nuts in the Fire to roa&s;t, he was very de&s;irous to ta&s;t &s;ome of them, but yet was likewi&s;e much afraid to burn his Fingers, &s;o that though he often attempted to rake them out, yet he was as often di&s;couraged by the heat of the Fire; Whereupon he was a long time contriving with him&s;elf how to attain his end; At length he perceives a young Kitling lye &s;leeping by the Fire, whereupon he pre|&s;ently re&s;olves that Pu&s;s &s;hall be his in&s;trument to gain his purpo&s;e; And catching her up in
<PB N="2" REF="5"> his arms, notwith&s;tanding her &s;qualling, and all the re&s;i&s;tance &s;he could make, yet Pug be|ing &s;tronger takes her fore-foot in his hand, and thru&s;ting it into the Fire gets out the Che&s;nuts, which he with much greedine&s;s &s;oon eats up; The poor Cat had her foot mi&s;erably burnt, and asks him weeping why he would u&s;e her &s;o cruelly without any provocation given him; The Monkey knew he had wronged her, and could &s;ay little in his own vindication, yet willing to make a lame defence rather than none, impudently replies. I mu&s;t confe&s;s the je&s;t was &s;omewhat &s;evere, but yet it is not &s;o much as you ju&s;tly de&s;erve to &s;uffer, con&s;ider|ing the wicked, &s;lothful and &s;leepy life that you lead.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>Some men care not what abu&s;es they put upon others, nor what troubles and dangers they bring them into, &s;o they can but compa&s;s their own ends and purpo&s;es; And how many were lately made u&s;e of to bring about the De&s;igns and Contrivances of ill men, who when their turn was &s;erved, were &s;o far from gratifying them, that they &s;coft and laugh'd at their ea&s;ine&s;s and folly.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="3" REF="5">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. I.</HI> The <HI>Monkey,</HI> the <HI>Cat,</HI> and the <HI>Che&s;nuts.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Monkey &s;aw his Ma&s;ter roa&s;t</L>
<L>Some Che&s;nuts by the Fire,</L>
<L>And Pug being very licori&s;h</L>
<L>To ta&s;te them did de&s;ire;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet was afraid to burn him&s;elf</L>
<L>Neither could he contrive</L>
<L>Which way, he without trouble might</L>
<L>To his de&s;ign arrive.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;eeing Pu&s;s lye by the Fire,</L>
<L>He was re&s;olv'd, that &s;he</L>
<L>The pain and danger &s;hould endure</L>
<L>His in&s;trument to be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And catching her into his arms,</L>
<L>He with her foot doth get</L>
<L>The roa&s;ted Che&s;nuts out, which he</L>
<L>Mo&s;t greedily doth eat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Cats foot is &s;everely burnt</L>
<L>Who weeping with the pain</L>
<L>Again&s;t the Monkeys cruelty</L>
<L>Doth wofully complain;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="4" REF="6">
<L>Quoth &s;he, why ha&s;t thou us'd me thus,</L>
<L>What mi&s;chief have I wrought</L>
<L>To thee or thine, that thou ha&s;t now</L>
<L>This mi&s;ery on me brought?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pug knew that he had wronged her,</L>
<L>And little had to plead</L>
<L>In vindication of him&s;elf</L>
<L>For this injurious deed;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet like a Villain, he replies,</L>
<L>You need not cry and roar,</L>
<L>Since for your &s;lothful wicked life,</L>
<L>You ought to &s;uffer more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For you and all your kindred too</L>
<L>Mo&s;t idly &s;pend your time,</L>
<L>Yea but to wet your foot for&s;ooth,</L>
<L>You think a grievous crime;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For the&s;e and other faults, whereof</L>
<L>I an account could give,</L>
<L>If you but your ju&s;t merits had</L>
<L>You don't de&s;erve to live.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Many ill men do never care</L>
<L>Wha hazards others run</L>
<L>On their behalf, &s;o that they can</L>
<L>But have their bu&s;ine&s;s done.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="5" REF="6">
<HEAD><HI>FAB II.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a house by the sea, outside which a mouse sticks its head inside an oyster shell</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Mou&s;e</HI> and the <HI>Oy&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Mou&s;e had dwelt many years in an an|cient Man&s;ion hou&s;e by the Sea-&s;ide, and enjoyed plenty of all things without dan|ger or fear, feeding daily upon Bacon, Chee&s;e, and crums of Bread which fell from the Ma&s;ters plentiful Table; But not knowing her own felicity &s;he grew wanton, and having heard that there were dainty bits to be found in other places, &s;he began to di&s;dain her cour&s;e fare, and longed to ta&s;te of tho&s;e choice rarities, and plea&s;ant viands, thinking her &s;elf to be very fooli&s;h that &s;he had lived &s;o long upon &s;uch
<PB N="6" REF="7"> homely food, and did not yet under&s;tand true eating; She therefore re&s;olves to travel with the fir&s;t opportunity, and &s;earch about till &s;he met with &s;ome new Ragou&s;t, to indulge her appetite therewith; Whereupon the next day &s;he marches toward the Sea-&s;ide, and upon her arrival finds a great quantity of Oy&s;ters lying upon the &s;hoar, and among the re&s;t one of them gaping to take in the Salt water; the Mou&s;e peeps into the &s;hell, and &s;eeing the Oy&s;ter, plea&s;ed her&s;elf very much to think of her good fortune, and what a delicate mor&s;el &s;he had got, and then eagerly thru&s;ts in her head to &s;eize her prey; She no &s;ooner toucht the Oy&s;ter, but the &s;hell immediately clo&s;ed with &s;uch force, that catching the Mou&s;e by the neck it gave her a mortal &s;queeze; Who finding death approaching, cryed out; Let all Belly-Gods take warning by me, who if I could have been contented with my own &s;afe condi|tion, might have lived many years longer, but am come to an untimely end meerly to gratify my fooli&s;h ta&s;te.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>How many men have lo&s;t their E&s;tates, Health, yea Life it &s;elf, by voluptuou&s;ne&s;s and indulging their nice palates?</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="7" REF="7">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. II.</HI> The <HI>Mou&s;e</HI> and the <HI>Oy&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>NEar to the Ocean there &s;tood,</L>
<L>An ancient Man&s;ion hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Wherein there liv'd for many years</L>
<L>With much content a Mou&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Plenty of all things &s;he enjoy'd,</L>
<L>And took no pains nor care,</L>
<L>There neither Cats, nor Mou&s;e Traps were</L>
<L>That might occa&s;ion fear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Bacon and Chee&s;e, and crums of Bread</L>
<L>Which from the Table fell,</L>
<L>Her daily entertainment were</L>
<L>And pleas'd her wondrous well.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But ea&s;e and wantonne&s;s at length</L>
<L>So pampered her bloud,</L>
<L>That &s;he begins to loath and &s;light</L>
<L>Her former whole&s;ome food.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And hearing what delicious bits</L>
<L>She otherwhere might find,</L>
<L>Re&s;olves her fortune &s;he will try,</L>
<L>And &s;atisfy her mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="8" REF="8">
<L>Then to the &s;hoar &s;he travels, where</L>
<L>Plenty of Oy&s;ters lay,</L>
<L>And &s;ees one gaping which &s;he &s;oon</L>
<L>Re&s;olves to make her prey,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in&s;tantly thru&s;ts in her head</L>
<L>With joy thereon to &s;eize,</L>
<L>But the &s;hell clo&s;ing &s;uddenly</L>
<L>Gives her a mortal &s;queeze.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dying Mou&s;e too late doth find</L>
<L>Her mi&s;erable &s;tate,</L>
<L>Caus'd by her fooli&s;h appetite,</L>
<L>And thus deplores her fate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All Belly Gods be warn'd by me</L>
<L>Not to indulge your ta&s;te,</L>
<L>Which Wealth and Health, yea Life it &s;elf</L>
<L>Doth prodigally wa&s;te;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Could I with my old countrey fare</L>
<L>But have contented been,</L>
<L>I might have &s;till prolong'd my life</L>
<L>And more good days have &s;een.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>How many may be &s;aid to dig</L>
<L>With their own teeth their graves.</L>
<L>Their Palates plea&s;ing; And unto</L>
<L>Their Appetites are &s;laves?</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="9" REF="8">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. III.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a fox inside its den, with a lion outside</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Fox</HI> and the <HI>Lion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Fox being very &s;ick, &s;hut him&s;elf clo&s;e up into his hole; The other Bea&s;ts mi&s;&s;ing him in his u&s;ual haunts, come to vi&s;it him, and inquire of his health; Among the re&s;t the Lion, the King of Bea&s;ts repairs to him, pre|tending to have much care of him, and great trouble for the pain he endured: Yet quoth he, Dear brother be not di&s;couraged, nor di&s;|heartned, for if you will take my advice, I doubt not but in a few days to make you as whole as a Fi&s;h, for I have an Infallible remedy, which I obtained in my travels from the chief Phy&s;i|cian
<PB N="10" REF="9"> of the King of <HI>Utopia,</HI> that never yet fail|ed in any di&s;ea&s;e what&s;oever, I cure all though &s;poiled, abu&s;ed and left off by others, &s;o that mine may be called the Univer&s;al Medicine and the true &s;ecret of the Philo&s;ophers, and no di|&s;temper can &s;tand before it; Thus the Lion like a right M untebank boa&s;ted of his mighty skill in Phy&s;ick; The Fox humbly intreats his Highne&s;s to impart his help to him; With all my heart, quoth the Lion, let me but come into your hole, &amp; you &s;hall &s;oon find that your cure will be &s;peedy, &s;afe and plea&s;ant, for if I only lick your body all over, there is &s;uch &s;overaign virtue in my Tongue, that all di&s;ea&s;es fly be|fore it. I humbly thank your Highne&s;s quoth the Fox, neither do I at all que&s;tion the excel|lent quality that is in your Grace Tongue, on|ly one thing much di&s;courages me, that your Teeth, which are &s;o near Neighbours to it, ap|pear &s;o terrible as it will rather increa&s;e than abate my malady; And if your Grace plea&s;e but to remove that inconvenience, I &s;hall be very ready to u&s;e your admirable Remedy; The Lion finding him&s;elf di&s;covered went away much di&s;contented.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>Though &s;ome by fair words and &s;pecious pretences, endeavour to ruine and de&s;troy hone&s;t men, yet their wicked de&s;igns are oft di&s;covered and prevented.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="11" REF="9">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. III.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> and the <HI>Lion.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Fox being very &s;ick and weak,</L>
<L>Within his hole was hid,</L>
<L>The other Bea&s;ts &s;oon mi&s;&s;ing him,</L>
<L>Came to &s;ee how he did.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among the re&s;t the King of Bea&s;ts</L>
<L>The Lion did repair</L>
<L>To vi&s;it Reynard, and of him</L>
<L>Pretends to have great care;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth he, I pity much your ca&s;e</L>
<L>That you are in &s;uch pain,</L>
<L>Yet hope, if my advice you take</L>
<L>You'l &s;oon be well again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Med'cine is Infallible,</L>
<L><HI>Saffold</HI>'s an A&s;s to me.</L>
<L>'Tis I alone who all can cure</L>
<L>If curable they be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lion like a Mountebank</L>
<L>Thus Magnifies his art.</L>
<L>The Fox his Highne&s;s humbly prays,</L>
<L>He would his help impart.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="12" REF="10">
<L>Mo&s;t willingly, the Lion cries,</L>
<L>'Tis plea&s;ant, &s;afe and &s;ure,</L>
<L>Let me but come into your hole,</L>
<L>I'le &s;oon your health procure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have &s;uch virtue in my Tongue</L>
<L>That if I come but near,</L>
<L>And only lick your skin all o're</L>
<L>You need no &s;ickne&s;s fear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox replies, I doubt not but</L>
<L>A Soveraign quality</L>
<L>Is in your Graces Tongue, whereby</L>
<L>You cure each malady.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I only dread that your &s;harp Teeth</L>
<L>Which &s;uch near Neighbours are,</L>
<L>Will fright and terrifie me &s;o</L>
<L>That I &s;hall die for fear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That inconvenience once remov'd</L>
<L>I &s;hould mo&s;t willingly,</L>
<L>Throw my &s;elf at your Highne&s;s feet,</L>
<L>And u&s;e your remedy.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Though &s;ome do treacherou&s;ly contrive</L>
<L>Their Neighbours overthrow,</L>
<L>Yet wi&s;e men oft their Plots de&s;cry,</L>
<L>And &s;o prevent the blow.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="4" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="13" REF="10">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. IV.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a grasshopper and some ants at the foot of a tree</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Ants</HI> and the <HI>Gra&s;hopper.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE indu&s;trious Ants had wi&s;ely provi|ded and laid up &s;tore of Provender in the Summer, whereby to maintain them&s;elves in Winter; but toward Autumn violent Rains happening, their Provi&s;ions were almo&s;t &s;poiled with the wet, but a Sun-&s;hiny day coming &s;oon after, every one of the&s;e little Animals with a Grain of Corn in its Mouth crept out of their dark Cell, and laid it upon a Bank to dry, thereby to prevent its being mouldy and &s;poil|ed; while they were thus profitably imployed, a Gra&s;hopper almo&s;t &s;tarved with hunger and
<PB N="14" REF="11"> cold, having ob&s;erved what they were doing, comes toward them, and humbly be&s;eeches them to give him &s;ome relief, or el&s;e he &s;hould unavoidably die in a &s;hort time with Famine; One of the mo&s;t ancient Ants, hearing him make this lamentable complaint, asks him, how he &s;pent his time in the Summer, that he had laid up nothing before hand, whereby he was already reduced to &s;uch mi&s;erable nece&s;&s;ity even before the Winter was well begun; Truely quoth he, I play'd away the Summer, and &s;ung Tunes to all that walked in the Fields; At which the Ant laughing aloud, cryed out, Nay then you ju&s;tly &s;uffer need, and de&s;erve little Charity, and therefore I would advi&s;e you that as you have &s;ung away your Harve&s;t time, &s;o you would dance away the Winter, for which by the &s;lenderne&s;s of your Diet your Body will be very well prepared.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>Tho&s;e that wa&s;te the Summer of their Youth, and Strength in Folly, and Debauchery, are ve|ry often brought to much penury and want in the Winter of Old Age.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="15" REF="11">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. IV.</HI> The <HI>Ants</HI> and the <HI>Gra&s;hopper.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE painful Ants that carefully</L>
<L>Their Winter &s;tore provide</L>
<L>In Summer, and within the Earth</L>
<L>It diligently hide;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>After a &s;udden violent Rain</L>
<L>which toward Autumn fell,</L>
<L>Each loaded with a Grain of Corn</L>
<L>Marcht out from their dark Cell;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And on a Sunny Bank next day</L>
<L>They their provi&s;ion lay,</L>
<L>That being dry'd again, it might</L>
<L>Not peri&s;h, nor decay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Gra&s;hopper who was almo&s;t &s;tarv'd</L>
<L>With hunger and with cold</L>
<L>Was pre&s;ent, and with longing Eyes</L>
<L>Their Victuals did behold:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And humbly begs of them they would</L>
<L>His pre&s;&s;ing wants &s;upply,</L>
<L>El&s;e he for lack of Su&s;tenance</L>
<L>Mu&s;t mi&s;erably die.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="16" REF="12">
<L>One of the grave&s;t Ants who heard</L>
<L>This Beggar thus lament,</L>
<L>Cry'd; Surely you in idlene&s;s</L>
<L>The Summer pa&s;t have Spent.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>El&s;e, like us, you might have laid up</L>
<L>Some provender in &s;tore,</L>
<L>And not have known this poverty</L>
<L>To beg from door to door.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Gra&s;hopper cries; All the day</L>
<L>I merrily did &s;ing,</L>
<L>And in the Ears of Pa&s;&s;engers</L>
<L>I made my voice to ring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ant then laughing, &s;aid, Since you</L>
<L>The Summer &s;pent in play</L>
<L>And &s;inging; It is ju&s;t that you</L>
<L>The Winter dance away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your Body for that exerci&s;e</L>
<L>Now being very fit;</L>
<L>Your &s;lender Diet having much</L>
<L>Contributed to it.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e that their Youthful time do wa&s;te</L>
<L>In play, and vanity,</L>
<L>Oft in the Winter of Old Age</L>
<L>Do come to poverty.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="5" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="17" REF="12">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. V.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf and a goat, with a goatherd in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Kid</HI> and the <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Wanton Kid wandring carele&s;ly away from her Mother, into the adjoining Woods, happened to meet with a terrible Wolf, who being very hungry was walking his rounds to &s;earch for his prey; The Kid was much a&s;toni&s;hed and &s;urprized at the &s;ight of him, expecting nothing but pre&s;ent death, and &s;aw no po&s;&s;ibility of e&s;caping; But at length recollecting her Spirits, &s;he re&s;olved if po&s;&s;ible to deceive the Wolf, and coming up briskly to him, Sir, quoth &s;he, I acknowledge I am your Pri&s;oner, and do not doubt but you intend to make a meal of my body, I only beg
<PB N="18" REF="13"> one kindne&s;s of you; What's that, &s;ays the Wolf, tell me quickly for my Stomach is up, and I cannot &s;pare time to talk; Only, quoth the Kid, that you will plea&s;e to let me have but one dance before I dye, and that you would a&s;&s;i&s;t me therein with your voice, who I hear have excellent skill in Singing; Well, &s;ays the Wolf, if that be all I will do it, though I never heard my voice commended before; but pray be brief then and di&s;patch in&s;tantly; The Kid &s;tands up on her hind legs, and dances, the Wolf &s;ings or howls, whereat the Kid re|doubles her dancing; At which the Wolf is &s;o plea&s;ed that he &s;trains his voice louder, &s;o that he might be heard a long way; And &s;o he was for the Dogs in the village hard by hearing and knowing his cry, they come with all &s;peed to &s;eek and pur&s;ue their Enemy, whom they &s;eiz|ed unawares, while he was performing his part; The Wolf finding how &s;oon the ca&s;e was al|tered, and that he mu&s;t be &s;acrificed to the fury of the Dogs; Well &s;ays he, this is nothing but what I de&s;erve, who having been born and bred a Cook and a Butcher, mu&s;t needs pretend to be a &s;inging Ma&s;ter.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>It is often &s;een that if per&s;ons leave the im|ployment wherein they were bred, and have knowledge, and pretend to new inventions they u&s;ually mi&s;carry and are undone.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="19" REF="13">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. V.</HI> The <HI>Kid</HI> and the <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Kid who carele&s;ly did &s;tray</L>
<L>Out of her Mothers eye,</L>
<L>A Wolf that watched for his prey,</L>
<L>Did in his walk e&s;py.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Kid her danger &s;oon perceiv'd,</L>
<L>And what her doom would be,</L>
<L>And &s;ince &s;he wanted &s;trength contriv'd</L>
<L>To practice policy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She therefore humbly begs the Wolf,</L>
<L>That &s;ince &s;he now mu&s;t dye,</L>
<L>To &s;ing a Song, becau&s;e his voice</L>
<L>Made &s;uch &s;weet melody,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And would permit her but to have</L>
<L>One dance before her death,</L>
<L>And then &s;he &s;hould more willingly</L>
<L>Re&s;ign her dying breath.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf who never heard before</L>
<L>His voice commended &s;o,</L>
<L>Valu'd him&s;elf upon his skill</L>
<L>And proud thereof did grow;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="20" REF="14">
<L>He then begins to howl or &s;ing,</L>
<L>The Kid does skip and dance,</L>
<L>Whereat the Wolf &s;o plea&s;ed is</L>
<L>His voice he does advance.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dogs within a Village near</L>
<L>Soon hear and know his cry,</L>
<L>And all with open mouth repair</L>
<L>To &s;eek their Enemy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf now finds though he de&s;ign'd</L>
<L>The innocent Kid to &s;lay,</L>
<L>Yet he him&s;elf was to the hounds</L>
<L>Like to become a prey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And turning to the Kid he cryes,</L>
<L>Ju&s;tly I &s;uffer ill,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e in what I did not know</L>
<L>I have pretended skill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Father and my Grandfather,</L>
<L>Both Cooks and Butchers were,</L>
<L>But I their Son mu&s;t Piper turn,</L>
<L>For which I now pay dear.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Who leave the Trades they know, and &s;trive</L>
<L>New Projects to contrive,</L>
<L>Do very often lo&s;e their aims,</L>
<L>And very &s;eldom thrive.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="6" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="21" REF="14">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. VI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a sheep, a dog, and a man carrying a long stick</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Sheep</HI> and the <HI>Dog.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen Sheep could &s;peak, one of them came to his Ma&s;ter, and de&s;ired to ask him one civil que&s;tion, wherein he would wil|lingly be &s;atisfied; I ob&s;erve quoth he, that not|with&s;tanding you receive &s;o many and &s;o great advantages by us Sheep both living and dead, who furni&s;h you with Wool, Lambs, Milk, and at length with Mutton, yet you take no care to make provi&s;ion for our eating, &s;o that we are forced to wander up and down the Fields eve|ry day, and are often put to very hard &s;hifts to get food; whereas your idle lazy Dog who af|fords
<PB N="22" REF="15"> you none of the&s;e benefits, is fed daily from your own Table with Varieties, and without taking any pains or care; The Dog being pre|&s;ent, and hearing the Sheep &s;candalize him at this rate, began to &s;well with anger, his Eyes grew red, his Hair &s;tood an end, and his rage was &s;o great that he could hold no longer, but in a mighty fury replies; Thou &s;illy Hen-hearted Creature, how ridiculou&s;ly do&s;t thou argue, and what a &s;en&s;le&s;s grievance do&s;t thou complain of for want of wit rightly to under&s;tand the mat|ter? Thou charge&s;t us Dogs with idlene&s;s, as if we did not de&s;erve our Bread, whereas if thy pa&s;tures were never &s;o plentiful, and thy food never &s;o ea&s;ie to attain, yet thy cowardly Spirit would never &s;uffer thee to eat it quietly, if we were not continually watchful and ready to de|fend you again&s;t ravening Wolves that would tear you to pieces, and from Thieves likewi&s;e who would &s;teal and kill you at their plea&s;ure; But this it is to do good turns to ungrateful Wretches, who can neither protect them&s;elves, nor will acknowledge the kindne&s;s of tho&s;e without who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance they would certainly be de&s;troyed.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Some People are apt to think that their Rulers lead too ea&s;ie lives, and though with|out Government they would be &s;oon ruined, yet are they often very ungrateful to the be&s;t of Princes.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="23" REF="15">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. VI.</HI> The <HI>Sheep</HI> and the <HI>Dog.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHen Sheep could &s;peak, one of them to</L>
<L>His Ma&s;ter did complain,</L>
<L>They were unju&s;tly dealt withal</L>
<L>Who brought him &s;o much gain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth &s;he, we cannot but admire</L>
<L>That &s;ince from us you take</L>
<L>Both Lambs, and Milk, and Wool; yet you</L>
<L>Us no allowance make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But we are forc'd continually</L>
<L>To wander all about</L>
<L>The Fields; and with much care and pains</L>
<L>Our daily Food &s;eek out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereas your lazy Dog, that doth</L>
<L>Afford you none of the&s;e,</L>
<L>Hath from your Table Meat and Drink,</L>
<L>And liveth at his ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dog was pre&s;ent, and with much</L>
<L>Impatience did hear</L>
<L>This charge; and to defend him&s;elf</L>
<L>No longer could forbear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="24" REF="16">
<L>Ye &s;illy Sheep, quoth he, ob&s;erve,</L>
<L>How fooli&s;h and how vain</L>
<L>This your pretended grievance is,</L>
<L>Whereof you thus complain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You charge us Dogs, as if our lives</L>
<L>In idlene&s;s we led,</L>
<L>And eat and drank continually</L>
<L>Yet never earn'd our Bread.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereas if we did not &s;ecure,</L>
<L>And guard you by our power,</L>
<L>Your lives would be in jeopardy</L>
<L>And danger every hour.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pray who are they which you defend</L>
<L>From Wolves that would you tear,</L>
<L>And from, Thieves too, whereby you may</L>
<L>Feed freely without fear?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You are &s;uch Cowards that without</L>
<L>Our help you cannot live,</L>
<L>Yet &s;o ungrateful, you no thanks</L>
<L>To your Pre&s;ervers give.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>A People without Government</L>
<L>Will quickly ruin'd be.</L>
<L>Yet to the be&s;t of Princes, &s;ome</L>
<L>Ungrateful we may &s;ee.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="7" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="25" REF="16">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. VII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a cat sat beneath a parrot in a cage</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Parrot</HI> and the <HI>Cat.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Gentleman going through the Market heard a Parrot prating and &s;inging ve|ry loud, with whom he was &s;o much taken, that demanding the price, he at length agreed, and buying it &s;ent it home to his hou&s;e, order|ing it to be hung up in the mid&s;t of his Hall in a Cage; Poll to whom all places were alike, was no &s;ooner come, but he began to prattle and talk as loud as before; A Cat that belonged to the Hou&s;e, hearing this &s;trange and unu&s;ual noi&s;e was wonderfully amazed, and could not ima|gine from whence it &s;hould come; At length
<PB N="26" REF="17"> happening to look up, &s;he &s;aw a Bird in a Cage, and perceived the voice to proceed from thence; Hey, quoth Pu&s;s, pray whence came you, what's your name, and what bu&s;ine&s;s have you here? The Parrot replied, I came from a very far Country, my name is Parrot, and I am of a worthy Family, who&s;e Livery is Green and Red, and happening to be taken cap|tive I was put into this Iron Grate to be &s;old, and was ju&s;t now bought by your Ma&s;ter in the Market. Methinks, &s;ays the Cat, that being &s;o lately come hither you &s;hould not have the confidence to make &s;uch a bawling as you do; I am &s;ure had I caus'd but half this di&s;turbance, I had been in danger to have my brains beat out, for though I was born and bred in this Hou&s;e, yet if I do but cry, and beg for a little victuals, my Ma&s;ter, Mi&s;tris and all the Fami|ly are ready to kill me; Why, quoth Poll, &s;ure Mi&s;tre&s;s Pu&s;s you will not compare my &s;inging and prating wherewith Per&s;ons of the be&s;t qua|lity are delighted, to your &s;qualling which is &s;o odious and ungrateful to the ears of all that hear it.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>We mu&s;t not make ridiculous compari&s;ons of things that differ in their own nature, and be|tween which there is no &s;imilitude and agreement.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="27" REF="17">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. VII.</HI> The <HI>Parrot</HI> and the <HI>Cat.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Ma&s;ter had a Parrot bought,</L>
<L>Which he no &s;ooner brought</L>
<L>Into his Hou&s;e, but Poll began</L>
<L>To prate as he was taught.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This &s;udden bawling and loud noi&s;e,</L>
<L>Poor Pu&s;s did &s;o &s;urprize,</L>
<L>She could not think what it &s;hould be</L>
<L>But ca&s;ting up her eyes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She &s;ees a Bird hang in a Cage,</L>
<L>And cryes, Hey! what are you,</L>
<L>How came you hither pray Sir, and</L>
<L>What have you here to do?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth he I am a dainty Bird,</L>
<L>And Parrot is my name,</L>
<L>And being by your Ma&s;ter bought</L>
<L>Ju&s;t from the Market came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Your impudence and confidence</L>
<L>Is very much I fear,</L>
<L>Quoth Pu&s;s, to talk &s;o boldly when</L>
<L>You are but ju&s;t come here.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="28" REF="18">
<L>I in this hou&s;e was bred and born,</L>
<L>Yet &s;carce dur&s;t ever cry,</L>
<L>Although I only beg'd for meat</L>
<L>My hunger to &s;upply.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if I like your wor&s;hip had</L>
<L>So in&s;olently &s;qual'd,</L>
<L>I by my Ma&s;ter and the re&s;t</L>
<L>Had cruelly been maul'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Poll &s;oon replies, good Mi&s;tri&s;s Pu&s;s,</L>
<L>Much liberty you take</L>
<L>Me to abu&s;e, becau&s;e between</L>
<L>Us you no difference make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My &s;inging and my talking &s;ure</L>
<L>You never will compare,</L>
<L>Unto your mewing which is &s;o</L>
<L>Ingrateful to the ear,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereas my Ma&s;ter doth his ear</L>
<L>Unto my talk incline,</L>
<L>And though he will not hear your noi&s;e</L>
<L>Yet he is pleas'd with mine.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>We &s;hould not make compari&s;ons</L>
<L>That are ridiculous,</L>
<L>Nor mu&s;t compare Polls prattle to</L>
<L>The &s;qualling of a Pu&s;s.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="8" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="29" REF="18">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a fox being taken up a ladder to the gallows</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. VIII.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> going to Execution.</HEAD>
<P>AN old Fox who had &s;pent his whole life in Theft and Rapine, was accu&s;ed by the Hens, Gee&s;e, Ducks, and Turkeys, of committing many Robberies and Murthers, upon their Wives, Children, Brothers, Si&s;ters, and other Relations, who all Petitioned the Lion their King that he might be brought to a Legal Tryal for the crimes he had committed, and receive condign puni&s;hment for the &s;ame; The Lion granted their reque&s;t, and gave Serjeant Pu&s;s a Warrant to Seize &amp; Arre&s;t Reynard in the Kings Name; and to commit him to Pri&s;on without Bayl, till he &s;hould be delivered by due cour&s;e of Law; The Cat in pur&s;uance of his Commi&s;&s;ion, goes with other Officers to the Foxes hole in the For|re&s;t, where they take him, and tying his hands
<PB N="30" REF="19"> behind him carry him to the common Jayl; From whence &s;oon after he was brought before the Lion and the re&s;t who &s;ate in Judgment upon him; The Witne&s;&s;es proved the matter a|gain&s;t him very fully, &s;o that he could &s;ay little in his own defence, only with Lies and Equivo|cations denied, and extenuated his faults, but in conclu&s;ion the Lion was fully &s;atisfied of his guilt, telling him, Certainly you are one of the mo&s;t notorious Ra&s;cals that ever lived in the Forre&s;t, and a greater Malefactor than the <HI>Gol|den Farmer,</HI> and for your many Villanies and Murthers de&s;erve like him to be hanged in Chains, but the Court is &s;o kind that you &s;hall only be hanged, and this is your Sentence; what have you to &s;ay why it &s;hould not be put in Exe|cution? I will &s;ay nothing quoth the Fox, again&s;t your Ju&s;tice, only I de&s;ire one favour, that I may not be carried to the Gallows through the high Street, but on the back &s;ide of the Town; This the Lion thought was &s;ome &s;ubtle trick of his, and asked him his rea&s;on; Becau&s;e, quoth he, I know there are great &s;tore of Hens and other Fowl that way, who&s;e &s;ight and plea&s;ant cackling, will much comfort me in that &s;ad hour, when I think how many plea&s;ant Meals I have made of the Fle&s;h of &s;ome of their Relations.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Wicked men take a pride and plea&s;ure in remem|bring their vile actions, from which even the fear of death cannot deter them, but they are then willing, though not able, again to repeat them.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="31" REF="19">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. VIII.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> going to Execution.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Gee&s;e, the Hens, Turkeys and Ducks,</L>
<L>And &s;everal Creatures more,</L>
<L>With divers crimes charge Reynard, and</L>
<L>The Lion do implore;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That he their King would Summon him</L>
<L>Before him to appear,</L>
<L>Where they their accu&s;ation</L>
<L>Again&s;t him would make clear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who being come, a numerous Train</L>
<L>Again&s;t him there complain,</L>
<L>That he their Fathers, Mothers, Wives,</L>
<L>And Children had &s;lain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Facts were prov'd &s;o clear and plain,</L>
<L>He little could reply,</L>
<L>Only with Lies and Impudence</L>
<L>The matter did deny.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But yet the Lion and the re&s;t</L>
<L>Before whom he was try'd,</L>
<L>Hearing the proofs; they of his guilt</L>
<L>Were fully &s;atisfy'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="32" REF="20">
<L>And for his Crimes and Villanies</L>
<L>They fully do agree,</L>
<L>That he de&s;erves to die, and that</L>
<L>He hanged ought to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox was then demanded what</L>
<L>He had to &s;ay why he,</L>
<L>According to this Sentence, &s;hould</L>
<L>Not Executed be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Lord, again&s;t your Ju&s;tice I,</L>
<L>Quoth he, have nought to &s;ay,</L>
<L>One favour only when I die</L>
<L>I humbly of you pray;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That through the high-road of the Town</L>
<L>I may not carried be,</L>
<L>But on the back&s;ide I may go</L>
<L>Unto the Gallow Tree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Becau&s;e I know full well I there</L>
<L>Good &s;tore of Hens &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>The very thoughts of who&s;e &s;weet Fle&s;h</L>
<L>Will comfort give to me.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>We oft find, wicked men, &s;o much</L>
<L>Delight in Villany,</L>
<L>They would act mi&s;chief had they power</L>
<L>Ev'n when they came to die.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="9" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="33" REF="20">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. IX.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a cockerel and a cat in the foreground, and a mouse in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The young <HI>Mou&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Cock,</HI> and the <HI>Cat.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A young Mou&s;e and an only Son, had been &s;o carefully bred up by his Mother, that &s;he would never permit him to go beyond the mouth of her hole. But growing up, the young creature had a de&s;ire to look about into the World, which his Mother was very fearful he &s;hould do; Alas Child, &s;ays, &s;he there is &s;o much treachery abroad, that if you once go out of my &s;ight I never expect to &s;ee you again; Dear Mo|ther quoth he, fear nothing, I will only go and look through the crevice of the door, and come back in&s;tantly; His importunity prevailed, and &s;o he goes into the next Room and peeps into
<PB N="34" REF="21"> the Yard, where he &s;aw a Cat walk very de|murely by the door, who laid her &s;elf down in the warm Sun; the young Mou&s;e much won|dred at her gravity, &amp; was extreamly taken with her &s;hape and &s;ober carriage; Soon after a Cock comes by very briskly, who clapping his wings &s;et up a loud crow, whereat our young Travel|ler was &s;o affrighted that all pale and trembling, he runs back to his Mother, who glad of his re|turn hugg'd him very tenderly, demanding the cau&s;e of his great &s;urprize and fright; Ah Mo|ther quoth he, I &s;aw a dreadful Creature with a red piece of Fle&s;h on his Head like a Crown, and the like under his Chin, and Horns on his Heels, who with things like Arms beating his &s;ides, made &s;uch a horrible noi&s;e as almo&s;t &s;ca|red me out of my wits; Ju&s;t when I was admi|ring a very fine Creature, of &s;o mode&s;t a look, and &s;o cleanly and neat, lying in the Sun, that I could hardly forbear running to ki&s;s and hug her; the old Mou&s;e perceiving his mi&s;take; My Dear &s;ays &s;he, that proud &s;trutting thing will never hurt thee, but be &s;ure to avoid the other mode&s;t one, who will certainly be the death of thee with the fir&s;t opportunity.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>We mu&s;t not always judge of men by their looks and carriage, neither are &s;ome roaring Sparks &s;o much to be dreaded as &s;ome demure and &s;ober Knaves.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="35" REF="21">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. IX.</HI> The young <HI>Mou&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Cat,</HI> and the <HI>Cock.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A young Mou&s;e, and an only Son,</L>
<L>With tenderne&s;s and care,</L>
<L>Was by her Mother bred, who &s;till</L>
<L>Of his life &s;tood in fear,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And kept him clo&s;e within her hole</L>
<L>Till grown; who then doth creep</L>
<L>Into th' adjoining Room, where through</L>
<L>A Crevice he does peep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in the Yard he there e&s;pies</L>
<L>A Cat demure and grave,</L>
<L>With whom he wi&s;hes that he could</L>
<L>But &s;ome acquaintance have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Soon after he ob&s;erves a Cock</L>
<L>That by the door doth go,</L>
<L>Who with his Wings did clap his &s;ides</L>
<L>And chearfully doth crow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At which the Mou&s;e was almo&s;t &s;car'd</L>
<L>Out of his wits, and run</L>
<L>Po&s;t ha&s;te unto his Mother, who</L>
<L>With joy receives her Son.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="36" REF="22">
<L>Demanding what the rea&s;on was</L>
<L>Of his &s;o great affright;</L>
<L>Oh Mother, I have &s;een, quoth he,</L>
<L>A very dreadful &s;ight:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Mon&s;ter with a Crown on's head,</L>
<L>And horned heels march'd by,</L>
<L>Who with his arms clapping his &s;ides</L>
<L>Sent forth a hideous cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereat I was &s;urpriz'd, being then</L>
<L>Admiring of a Creature,</L>
<L>Sober and mode&s;t in her look,</L>
<L>And of a hand&s;om feature.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With whom I was re&s;olv'd to make</L>
<L>A League of amity.</L>
<L>The Mother finding by his talk</L>
<L>Her Sons &s;implicity;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She tells him from that &s;trutting thing</L>
<L>He need no danger fear,</L>
<L>But for his life, he never &s;hould</L>
<L>That &s;erious one come near.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>By mode&s;t looks we &s;carce can judge</L>
<L>What really men are,</L>
<L>For the demure are oft more fal&s;e</L>
<L>Than Huffing Sparks, by far.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="10" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="37" REF="22">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. X.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf watching a horse eat a pile of corn</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and the <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Wolf in his Rambles happened to come to a place where he found a large heap of Corn, which when he had throughly viewed, well, &s;ays he, I am very hungry, but yet this dry Victuals will never go down with me; Oh that I had but a Lamb or a Kid now in exchange for it! what a hearty meal could I make; yet now I con&s;ider of it, &s;ince I cannot eat it my &s;elf, I think I were be&s;t make a Friend with it, and a&s;&s;ure him, it is not but that I like it very well, only out of great kindne&s;s and re&s;pect I pre&s;ent it to him; Then going on he at length meets with a Hor&s;e: Well met, my Friend, quoth the
<PB N="38" REF="23"> Wolf, you may reckon it a happy minute that you have &s;o luckily encountred me, for I was ju&s;t going to &s;eek you, to make you as gallant a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> Entertainment as ever you had in your life Come, come along with me, and I will &s;hew yo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uch a heap of dainty Corn as &s;hall make you Mouth water again, and where you may ea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> your Belly full at free co&s;t; The Hor&s;e went a long with him, and coming to the place; Her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ays the Wolf, &s;ee what dainty cheer I have pro|vided for you, fall to heartily, and &s;pare not you are welcom to it, and I a&s;&s;ure you, I &s;pare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> it out of my own Belly on purpo&s;e to fill yours. The Hor&s;e falls greedily to his meat; Wel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> quoth the Wolf, methinks you make &s;uch a pret|ty noi&s;e with crumping the Corn in your Teeth that I am mighty glad I had this Banquet for you; The Hor&s;e &s;ays little till he had done, but then replies; Brother I give you many thanks for this good meal, but yet I am of the Opinion that if Wolves could eat Corn, I &s;hould hardly have made &s;uch a plentiful Dinner, and I believe you would have preferr'd the plea&s;ure of your &s;tomach in eating, before that of your ears in hearing my grinders crump the Corn.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Tho&s;e that are naturally vicious, though they &s;ometimes do a good action, yet we are apt to think it is only by chance, and not from an hone&s;t Principle.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="39" REF="23">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. X.</HI> The <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and the <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Wolf in Rambling chanc'd to find</L>
<L>An heap of Wheat, which he</L>
<L>Knew with his con&s;titution</L>
<L>Would never well agree;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who for &s;uch dry and husky meat</L>
<L>As that did never care,</L>
<L>But thought raw Mutton, or a Lamb</L>
<L>Was much the better fare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore re&s;olv'd to make a Friend</L>
<L>Of what he could not eat,</L>
<L>And meeting with the Hor&s;e he does</L>
<L>Invite him to the Treat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth he, pray come along with me,</L>
<L>And I di&s;cover will</L>
<L>To you, a parcel of rare Wheat</L>
<L>Where you may eat your fill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which out of love and kindne&s;s I</L>
<L>Do now to you make known,</L>
<L>To fill your Belly, though I do</L>
<L>Save it out of my own.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="40" REF="24">
<L>The Hor&s;e him thanks, and they at length</L>
<L>Arrive unto the place,</L>
<L>And find the Wheat lye on the ground,</L>
<L>Of which he eats apace.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf &s;tands by and does prote&s;t</L>
<L>That nothing to his Ear</L>
<L>Is more delightful, than the Corn</L>
<L>Ground by his Teeth to hear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Hor&s;e does little an&s;wer make</L>
<L>But lu&s;tily feeds on,</L>
<L>Unwilling to lo&s;e time until</L>
<L>He had his Dinner done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But then replies, To you, Sir Wolf,</L>
<L>I much obliged am</L>
<L>For this good Banquet which to me</L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onably came:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But yet I think if Wolves could eat</L>
<L>Corn, that you would prefer</L>
<L>The filling of your Belly to</L>
<L>The plea&s;ure of your Ear.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>If men are naturally bad,</L>
<L>Though &s;ome good deeds they do,</L>
<L>We cannot think their hone&s;ty</L>
<L>Inclines them thereunto.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="11" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="41" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a bear whispering in the ear of a huntsman</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Hunt&s;man</HI> and the <HI>Bear.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Hunt&s;man who&s;e u&s;ual Imployment it was to cha&s;e and kill wild Bea&s;ts, comes to a Tanner, and asks him whether he would buy a large Bears Skin of him; Yes quoth the Tanner if it be worth buying, pray let me &s;ee it; Nay &s;ays the Hunt&s;man, I have it not by me; but I would willingly know what you will give when I bring it; Sure quoth the Tanner, you would not have me buy a Pig in a Bag, for &s;o I may be cheated as the Man was, who when he came to look in his Sack found a Puppy Dog therein in|&s;tead of a Sucking Pig which he thought he had purcha&s;ed; To tell you the truth &s;ays the Hunt&s;man, there is a great Bear in the Woods
<PB N="42" REF="25"> hard by, and to Morrow Morning I intend to go and find him out, and when I have killed him, I will &s;trip off his Skin and bring it you; Well, &s;ays the Tanner, when this is done I will give you the full value, and I care not if I go with you to &s;ee the Sport; Next Morning the Hunt&s;|man and the Tanner went toward the Wood, and coming near, the Tanner gets up into a Tree to be out of danger; The Hunt&s;man goes on couragiou&s;ly with his Dogs, and rouzes the Bear out of his Den, who comes with mighty fury toward him, the Hunter makes up to him with his Sword, but mi&s;&s;ing his &s;troke he falls upon the ground, and was not able to recover him&s;elf, &s;o that the Bear was ju&s;t ready to tear him in pieces; But he knowing that Bears never prey upon the dead, holds his Breath, &s;o that the Bea&s;t &s;melling about his Mouth and Ears, and finding no life, went away, leaving him in a ter|rible fright, but the Tanner &s;eeing the danger pa&s;t, coming down calls to him, and bids him ri&s;e, and then asks what the Bear whi&s;pered in his Ear; Why, quoth he, he advi&s;ed me that hereafter I &s;hould never venture to &s;ell the Bears Skin till I had killed the Bear.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>We ought not to reckon any thing our own till we have it in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, neither &s;hould we boa&s;t of the Victory till the Battel be ever.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="43" REF="25">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XI.</HI> The <HI>Hunt&s;man</HI> and the <HI>Bear.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Hunt&s;man to a Tanner came,</L>
<L>Demanding whether he</L>
<L>Would buy a Bear-skin of him, which</L>
<L>Both good and cheap would be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tanner asks to &s;ee the Skin</L>
<L>E're he a bargain make.</L>
<L>The Hunter &s;ays, he had it not</L>
<L>But he next day would take</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A cruel Bear that in the Woods</L>
<L>Adjoining did re&s;ide,</L>
<L>And having kill'd him he would then</L>
<L>Flea him, and bring his Hyde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next day the Hunter and his Dogs</L>
<L>Go out to rouze the Bear,</L>
<L>The Tanner from a Tree ob&s;erves</L>
<L>Him marching without fear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear with fury i&s;&s;ues out</L>
<L>The Hunt&s;man to a&s;&s;ail,</L>
<L>Who with his Sword approaches him</L>
<L>Not doubting to prevail.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="44" REF="26">
<L>But his fir&s;t &s;troke at him he mi&s;t,</L>
<L>Whereby th' inraged Bear</L>
<L>Got &s;uch advantage that he was</L>
<L>Ju&s;t ready him to tear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Hunter knowing that the Bear</L>
<L>O'th' dead doth never prey,</L>
<L>Falls on the Earth, and holds his Breath,</L>
<L>As if for dead he lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear &s;mells to his Face and Mouth</L>
<L>And finds he did not breathe,</L>
<L>And then retires, yet in great fear</L>
<L>The Hunter he doth leave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The danger pa&s;t, the Tanner comes,</L>
<L>And bids him ri&s;e and tell</L>
<L>What the Bear whi&s;per'd in his Ear,</L>
<L>When on the ground he fell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth he, he did advi&s;e me, that</L>
<L>If wi&s;e I would appear,</L>
<L>I never &s;ell the Skin again</L>
<L>Till I have kill'd the Bear.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>That only which we do po&s;&s;e&s;s</L>
<L>We ought to call our own,</L>
<L>Nor &s;hould we boa&s;t of Victory</L>
<L>Before the Fight be done.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="12" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="45" REF="26">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>four apes making a fire</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Bird</HI> and the <HI>Apes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Company of Apes in a cold Winters night were got under a Tree, con&s;ulting how to make a Fire to warm them&s;elves; at length one happened to &s;py a Gloworm lying under an Hedge, and with great joy calls out to his Companions that he had found a Coal of Fire, they all run to &s;ee it, and concluding it to be &s;o, they in&s;tantly gather a number of &s;mall &s;ticks, to lay upon it, and then take a great deal of pains in puffing and blowing to cau&s;e it to burn into a Flame; a Bird that &s;ate upon a Tree over again&s;t them, and had ear|ne&s;tly ob&s;erved all their actions, perceiving their fruitle&s;s toil and labour, calls to them and
<PB N="46" REF="27"> tells them that what they were doing was to no purpo&s;e, and that they took pains for no|thing, &s;eeing it was not a Spark of Fire as they imagined, but only a Gloworm which they made &s;uch a &s;tir about; but they were &s;o bu&s;i|ly imploy'd that they regarded not her admo|nitions; therefore out of her double diligence, thinking they did not hear her, &s;he flies from the Tree, and &s;its down by them; crying, Pray, Gentlemen, hear rea&s;on, you trouble your &s;elves in vain, I am a&s;ham'd to &s;ee your ridi|culous Folly; an Ape di&s;creeter than the re&s;t, and who laugh'd at their actions, &s;eeing the mighty care and concernment of the Bird, comes to her and admoni&s;hes her, that &s;he &s;hould be cautious, not to indanger her own life, while &s;he was over &s;ollicitous about their af|fairs, but &s;he would take no warning, per&s;i&s;t|ing in coun&s;elling and advi&s;ing them &s;o long, till a &s;ly Ape approaching near, &s;uddenly leaps upon her, and catching her in his hand, tears her in&s;tantly to pieces, and eats her up, where|by &s;he found too late her own Folly in giving In&s;tructions to tho&s;e who had not the &s;en&s;e to receive it.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Many are &s;o bu&s;ily imployed in the Affairs of the Publick, and of other Men, that they neglect their own, and very often endanger their lives into the bargain.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="47" REF="27">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XII.</HI> The <HI>Bird</HI> and the <HI>Apes.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>IN a cold Winters night &s;ome Apes</L>
<L>Were got under a Tree,</L>
<L>Contriving how to get a Fire,</L>
<L>That they might warmed be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length one does a Gloworm &s;py</L>
<L>Which &s;hined in the dark,</L>
<L>And joyfully cries, Fire, Fire,</L>
<L>See I have found a Spark.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Brethren were glad of it,</L>
<L>And all &s;oon thither came</L>
<L>To gather &s;ticks and pile thereon</L>
<L>Whereby to make a Flame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They puff and blow with all their &s;trength,</L>
<L>And mighty pains they take,</L>
<L>But all to little purpo&s;e was</L>
<L>For they no Fire could make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A little Bird ob&s;erved them</L>
<L>From an adjoining Tree</L>
<L>And cry'd aloud, That all they did</L>
<L>Was but meer foolery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="48" REF="28">
<L>But they &s;o bu&s;ie were that none</L>
<L>Regarded her; &s;o &s;he</L>
<L>Flies down, and cries, Pray, Gentlemen,</L>
<L>Be but advis'd by me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>An Ape di&s;creeter than the re&s;t</L>
<L>Calls to her to be wi&s;e,</L>
<L>And not to hazard her own life</L>
<L>While &s;he did them advi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet &s;he will not this warning mind,</L>
<L>But &s;till great pains does take,</L>
<L>To make them &s;en&s;ible of this</L>
<L>Their folly and mi&s;take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Until at length a rogui&s;h Ape</L>
<L>Suddenly leaps upon her,</L>
<L>And tearing her in pieces, he</L>
<L>Then makes his Supper on her.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereby this prating Bird too late</L>
<L>Her folly did perceive,</L>
<L>To give good coun&s;el unto Fools</L>
<L>Who will it not receive.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Many of other mens affairs</L>
<L>So very careful are</L>
<L>That they their own neglect; yea of</L>
<L>Their &s;afety take no care.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="13" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="49" REF="28">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XIII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Jupiter with some animals before him</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>Jupiter</HI> and the <HI>Creatures.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Poets relate, that <HI>Jupiter</HI> hearing &s;ome Creatures were di&s;contented with their own &s;hapes, he &s;ummoned them before him, freely to declare what defects they thought were in their Bodies, and they &s;hould be in&s;tantly re|medied; and the Ape being next him, &s;ays
<HI>Jupi|ter,</HI> pray ob&s;erve the Beauty of your Fellow Creatures, and compare them with your own, and then tell me what you would have amend|ed, and it &s;hall be done. Sir, quoth the Ape, I am well plea&s;ed both with the Elegancy of my Shape and Wit, but &s;aid be, here is my Brother Bear cannot much boa&s;t of his admirable Figure, I am &s;ure &s;hould he &s;ee his Picture he would
<PB N="50" REF="29"> &s;carce be in love with it. For my part, quoth the Bear, I envy not the hand&s;omne&s;s of any other Bea&s;t, being &s;atisfied with my own. But I think it would be well if the Elephant had &s;ome ad|dition to his Tail, and his Shape were made more comely; The Elephant was very angry at this Character, not de&s;iring to have any alte|ration, but &s;ays he, I really pity the Whale who is &s;o bulky that he can hardly manage him&s;elf; The Whale prote&s;ted in a rage, that he liked his bulk very well, and would by no means be le&s;s. But I mu&s;t confe&s;s quoth he, I very much pity the little Ant, who takes &s;uch extraordi|nary pains, and is continually labouring for its Meat, and yet his &s;trength does not &s;eem agreeable to his Wit and Indu&s;try; you might have &s;pared your Remarks upon me, <HI>Don Ele|phanto,</HI> quoth the Ant, &s;ince I have &s;trength and ability &s;ufficient for my Imployment, nei|ther am I &s;o very &s;mall but if compared to a Mite, I appear like a Giant. <HI>Jupiter</HI> having plea&s;antly cen&s;ured them for the good Opinion every one had of him&s;elf, and yet could e&s;py defects in other Creatures, di&s;mi&s;t their further attendance.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>We are too apt to ob&s;erve faults in other men, and to cen&s;ure them very &s;everely, but can hardly be per&s;waded to own any Follies in our &s;elves.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="51" REF="29">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XIII. Jupiter</HI> and the <HI>Creatures.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Poets do relate, that &s;ome</L>
<L><HI>Jupiter</HI> did acquaint,</L>
<L>That divers Creatures of their form</L>
<L>And &s;hape made much complaint.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who thereupon did Summon them</L>
<L>Before him to appear,</L>
<L>That their defects and grievances</L>
<L>They might to him declare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ape was near, to whom <HI>Jove</HI> &s;aid,</L>
<L>Look on the&s;e Bea&s;ts I pray,</L>
<L>Then tell me what defect you have</L>
<L>And I'll take it away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sir, quoth the Ape, I am well pleas'd</L>
<L>Both with my Shape and Wit,</L>
<L>But here's my Brother Bear whom I</L>
<L>To be reform'd think fit.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear grows angry and replies,</L>
<L>He did no mending want,</L>
<L>But thought more Tail would well become</L>
<L>The bulky Elephant.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="52" REF="30">
<L>The Elephant cries, Say no more,</L>
<L>I like my Shape and Tail,</L>
<L>But for his mon&s;trous bigne&s;s I</L>
<L>Do pity much the Whale.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Whale inrag'd cries, Of my &s;ize</L>
<L>I'll no abatement make,</L>
<L>But yet methinks the little Ant</L>
<L>Far too much pains doth take.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ant &s;ays &s;he no pity wants</L>
<L>But was extreamly pleas'd,</L>
<L>And of her care and trouble &s;he</L>
<L>De&s;ires not to be eas'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the &s;malne&s;s of her Shape</L>
<L>She no concernment has,</L>
<L>Since if compared to a Mite</L>
<L>She like a Giant was.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Jove</HI> heard, and gently them reprov'd</L>
<L>That they &s;o &s;oon could &s;py</L>
<L>Defects in other Creatures, but</L>
<L>None in them&s;elves de&s;cry.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>In cen&s;uring other people none</L>
<L>Are more &s;evere than we,</L>
<L>But in ob&s;erving our own faults</L>
<L>As blind as Moles we be.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="14" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="53" REF="30">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XIV.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf dressed as a shepherd, with a man lying on the ground beside him</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Wolf</HI> turned Shepherd.</HEAD>
<P>A Wolf that was grown old and feeble, and &s;o unable to pur&s;ue and take his prey as in his former youthful days, was long contri|ving how to maintain him&s;elf in his decrepit Age; at la&s;t he found out a &s;ubtil invention, whereby he did not in the lea&s;t doubt but to live as plentifully and happily as ever. To which purpo&s;e he &s;eeks out a convenient place near the &s;ide of a Forre&s;t, where large flocks of Sheep and other Cattel u&s;ually fed. In the next place he gets a Coat and Breeches, fitted to his body, and in all points exactly like a Shepherd, with a Cap on his head; and then walking upon his hind-feet, he carried a Shepherds Crook up|on
<PB N="54" REF="31"> on his &s;houlder; and to make him&s;elf ab&s;olutely compleat, he ties a pair of Bagpipes to his girdle: Being thus throughly accommodated, he goes confidently toward the flocks, and when he ap|proached them, finds the true Shepherd and his Dogs with mo&s;t of the Cattel &s;leeping, but yet dur&s;t not attempt to &s;eize any of the Sheep for fear of waking the Shepherd and Dogs; and therefore thought upon another &s;tratagem, which was to draw one or two of them toward the &s;ide of the Wood, where he might without dan|ger kill and eat them; And to that end he re|&s;olves to counterfeit the Shepherds voice and call, but this utterly ruined the whole project; for in&s;tead of whi&s;tling, he &s;et up &s;uch a loud howling, that the adjoyning Hills ecchoed again with the noi&s;e, which likewi&s;e &s;oon rou&s;ed and alarm'd the &s;leepy Shepherd and his Dogs, who in&s;tantly pur&s;ue him with full cry; and he being much incommoded and hindred in his flight by his new Accoutrements, they &s;oon run him down, and &s;o he became an ea&s;ie prey to his Adver&s;aries, who unca&s;ing him of his deceitful Clothing, make a quick di&s;patch of this Sham Shepherd.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>A Wolf will always be a Wolf; neither is fal&s;hood and treachery u&s;ually concealed long, but will in time be di&s;covered to the confu&s;ion of the Actors.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="55" REF="31">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XIV.</HI> The <HI>Wolf</HI> turned Shepherd.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Wolf with age grown weak, &s;o that</L>
<L>He could no longer take</L>
<L>His Prey as u&s;ual, and to live</L>
<L>Many hard &s;hifts did make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Set his invention at work</L>
<L>To gain by policy</L>
<L>A livelihood, and by his Wit</L>
<L>His craving wants &s;upply.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He then takes up his re&s;idence</L>
<L>Nigh to a Forre&s;t &s;ide,</L>
<L>Where Flocks of Sheep and Cattle did</L>
<L>Mo&s;t commonly abide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next he puts on a Shepherds Hat</L>
<L>And Coat, that thereby he</L>
<L>Might under that di&s;gui&s;e be thought</L>
<L>The true Shepherd to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And walking on his hinder Legs</L>
<L>A Shepherds Crook doth bear,</L>
<L>And ties a Bagpipe to his &s;ide</L>
<L>His calling to declare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="56" REF="32">
<L>And then demurely walks along</L>
<L>Toward the Flocks of Sheep,</L>
<L>Finding the Shepherd and his Dogs,</L>
<L>And Cattle all a&s;leep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet fears to wake them, but contrives</L>
<L>How he by &s;ome device</L>
<L>Might from the Flock a &s;ingle Sheep</L>
<L>To the Woods &s;ide intice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length re&s;olves to imitate</L>
<L>The Shepherds voice and call,</L>
<L>And then a hideous howl &s;ets up</L>
<L>VVhich Shepherd, Dogs, and all</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Doth &s;oon alarum, who pur&s;ue</L>
<L>This Cheater with full cry,</L>
<L>VVho&s;e Coat and Breeches hinder him</L>
<L>So that he cannot fly.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But by the Dogs is quickly &s;eiz'd,</L>
<L>VVho him in pieces tear,</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e he a Shepherd would be thought</L>
<L>But did a VVolf appear.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>A Wolf will be a Wolf, though he</L>
<L>Another Shape put on,</L>
<L>And treachery though ne're &s;o clo&s;e</L>
<L>Cann't be concealed long.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="15" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="57" REF="32">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XV.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a river scene with two people in a boat and one in the water</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Impertinent Trifler.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Poor Man lived at the &s;ide of a Forre&s;t, whither he u&s;ually went to fetch Wood: But on a time going upon the &s;ame account, he found &s;uch plenty, that he grew very curious, and one &s;tick did not plea&s;e him, nor another, but he cry'd, Well, I will go further, and there I &s;hall find better choice; wandring along up|on this fooli&s;h account, it happened that a crew of Wolves came howling through the Woods, with the &s;ight of whom he was &s;o dreadfully affrighted, that he ran with all imaginable &s;peed toward a River, where finding neither
<PB N="58" REF="33"> a Bridge nor a Boat to help him over, he threw him&s;elf into the &s;tream to avoid his pur&s;uers; but having little skill in &s;wimming, before he was half way cro&s;s, the force of the water car|ried him away with &s;uch force, that he &s;unk to the bottom, and had certainly been drowned, but that &s;ome Fi&s;hermen near hand ob&s;erving it, threw their Nets into the place, and took him up in one of them, and carrying him a|&s;hore, as &s;oon as they had dreined the water out of his Body they &s;et him under an old VVall, &s;eeming rather dead than alive, at length by the warmth of the Sun he began to recover his &s;en&s;es, but then in&s;tead of going home to refre&s;h him&s;elf, he lay there impertinently relating at large to all that pa&s;&s;ed by the &s;trange Misfor|tunes, and terrible dangers which had befallen him that day, together with all the circum|&s;tances thereof, and how narrowly he had e&s;|caped with his life; Thus he continued his tri|fling di&s;cour&s;e a great while, till at length the Wall being crazy, fell down and knockt him on the head, in the ruins whereof he was bu|ried.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>He that neglects his affairs for Trifles, and &s;pends his time in idle and impertinent di&s;cour&s;e, makes him&s;elf ridiculous to wi&s;e men, and is oft unfortunate to him&s;elf.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="59" REF="33">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XV.</HI> The <HI>Impertinent Trifler.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A poor man to the Forre&s;t went</L>
<L>To gather Wood, and found</L>
<L>Such plenty of all &s;orts which lay</L>
<L>Scatter'd upon the ground</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That he &s;tood trifling, and none</L>
<L>Could &s;ee which pleas'd his mind,</L>
<L>But forward went, crying, he hop'd</L>
<L>Yet better choice to find.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wandring along, a crew of Wolves</L>
<L>Came howling in his way,</L>
<L>Threatning with open Jaws that they</L>
<L>Of him would make a prey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whom to avoid he with all &s;peed</L>
<L>Toward a River flew,</L>
<L>Where finding neither Bridge nor Boat</L>
<L>Him&s;elf therein he threw.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where he had &s;oon been drown'd, but that</L>
<L>Some Fi&s;hermen at hand</L>
<L>Fling in their Nets, and catching him</L>
<L>Brought him again to Land.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="60" REF="34">
<L>They drein'd his Body, and him laid</L>
<L>Under a ruin'd Wall,</L>
<L>Where more a dead man than a live</L>
<L>He did appear to all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length his &s;en&s;es did return,</L>
<L>And he to &s;peak began,</L>
<L>But there in&s;tead of going home,</L>
<L>He tells to every man</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who pa&s;&s;ed by, the &s;tory of</L>
<L>The dangers of that day,</L>
<L>And how he hardly with his life</L>
<L>Made his e&s;cape away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus he lay long, continuing</L>
<L>His fond impertinence,</L>
<L>Neither could he per&s;waded be</L>
<L>To go away from thence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Until at length the Wall fell down</L>
<L>And knockt him on the head,</L>
<L>And in the ruins of the &s;ame</L>
<L>He there was buried.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e that in trifling and vain talk</L>
<L>Fooli&s;hly &s;pend their days</L>
<L>Into great mi&s;chiefs run, and oft</L>
<L>Suffer by their delays.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="16" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="61" REF="34">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XVI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a hedgehog and a fox beside a river</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Hedghog</HI> and the <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Fox going through a River, when he came to the other &s;ide it was &s;o &s;teep and &s;lippery that though he often endeavoured to get up, yet &s;till fell back again, &s;o that he was forced to lye in the mud, and to aggravate his misfortune, a great number of &s;tinging Flies fa&s;tened upon his Head and Eyes, and put him to very great torment; an Hedghog that &s;tood on the Rivers brink perceiving what a wretch|ed condition he was in, very charitably offered his a&s;&s;i&s;tance to drive them away; The Fox gave him many thanks for his kindne&s;s, but told him, he thought it would be more convenient to
<PB N="62" REF="35"> let them continue where they were; The Hedg-hog &s;tood in admiration to hear the Fox give &s;uch an an&s;wer, who was always thought to be one of the wi&s;e&s;t and mo&s;t di&s;creet Per&s;ons that inhabited in the Forre&s;t; Pray, Sir, &s;ays he, be plea&s;ed to give me a rea&s;on, why you would not be glad to be rid of &s;uch trouble&s;ome gue&s;ts; Brother, quoth the Fox, &s;ince you are de&s;irous to know, I'll tell you, I have con&s;idered that the&s;e Blood-&s;uckers have been there &s;o long, that their Bellies mu&s;t by this time of nece&s;&s;ity be almo&s;t full, but if they &s;hould be driven away, a fre&s;h party will immediately &s;ucceed them, who I am afraid will come on &s;o eagerly that they will &s;uck out all the remainder of Blood that is left in my Body, and &s;o make an end of me. The Hedg-hog hearing the notable foreca&s;t of the Fox approved of his great di&s;cretion and &s;o left him.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Tho&s;e People that are &s;o unfortunate, and mi&s;erable as to live under Vice-Roys and Go|vernors, who are changed u&s;ually in two or three years, as it happens in many Countries in</HI> Europe, <HI>would be more happy if they continued longer, &s;ince tho&s;e that &s;tay &s;ome years, having already &s;queezed the people are grown rich, and therefore &s;pare them, whereas the new one that comes poor and hungry, practi&s;es all manner of Rapine and Oppre&s;&s;ion to inrich him&s;elf.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="63" REF="35">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XVI.</HI> The <HI>Hedg-hog</HI> and the <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Fox a River pa&s;&s;ing came</L>
<L>Unto the other &s;ide,</L>
<L>But in attempting to get up</L>
<L>Into the mud did &s;lide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where he &s;tuck fa&s;t, and though to free</L>
<L>Him&s;elf he took much pain,</L>
<L>Yet when he was almo&s;t got out</L>
<L>He &s;till fell back again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And his misfortune to increa&s;e</L>
<L>A multitude of Flies</L>
<L>So &s;tung his head and face, he fear'd</L>
<L>They would put out his Eyes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A charitable Hedg-hog &s;aw</L>
<L>In what di&s;tre&s;s he lay,</L>
<L>And kindly ask'd him if he &s;hould</L>
<L>The&s;e Vermine drive away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I give you thanks then, quoth the Fox,</L>
<L>But though I feel great pain,</L>
<L>Yet I conceive it will be be&s;t</L>
<L>To let them &s;till remain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="64" REF="36">
<L>The Hedghog marvell'd very much</L>
<L>To hear the Fox &s;peak &s;o,</L>
<L>He being thought di&s;creet and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>And would his rea&s;on know.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why, &s;ays the Fox, I do &s;uppo&s;e</L>
<L>The&s;e almo&s;t have their fill,</L>
<L>And much more Blood they cannot &s;uck</L>
<L>Let them do what they will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if the&s;e &s;hould away be driven,</L>
<L>Then &s;oon a fre&s;h &s;upply</L>
<L>Would in their rooms &s;ucceed, who will</L>
<L>Renew my mi&s;ery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay wor&s;e; for I not only fear</L>
<L>I mu&s;t endure more pain,</L>
<L>But that the&s;e new ones will &s;uck out</L>
<L>What Blood doth yet remain</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVithin my Body; and when that</L>
<L>Cannot their thir&s;t &s;upply,</L>
<L>My Blood being dreined out I mu&s;t</L>
<L>Inevitably die.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Who under cruel Governors</L>
<L>Do live, were better far</L>
<L>To keep their Old than change for New</L>
<L>Who like Hor&s;e-leaches are.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="17" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="65" REF="36">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a monkey throwing money from an upstairs window to people down below</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XVII.</HI> The <HI>Monkey</HI> and the <HI>Mi&s;er.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN old U&s;urer who &s;carce allowed him&s;elf meat or drink, and had heaped up much riches by extortion and oppre&s;&s;ing the poor, was &s;o extream mi&s;erable that he kept no &s;er|vants, but only a Ma&s;tiff Dog to drive beggars from his door, and a Monkey to make him &s;port and pa&s;time, who was chained in the Yard be|fore his hou&s;e; One time the old Gentleman having occa&s;ion to go abroad, to receive twen|ty in the Hundred for his money at Intere&s;t, left the&s;e two faithful &s;tewards to take care of his concerns, but his tru&s;ty &s;ervant the Monkey by often leaping and jumping about, happened to break his Chain, and finding his heels at liber|ty, skipt and danced for joy, and looking up
<PB N="66" REF="37"> he &s;aw a Window open; Pug being kept like his Ma&s;ter, with very &s;hort commons, re&s;olv|ed to climb up and go in at the Window, to &s;eek for what he could find to appea&s;e his crav|ing Stomach; Being entred it happened to be his Ma&s;ters Clo&s;et, where his Soul, and his Gold were hoarded up together; The Monkey &s;oon unties one of the bags, and taking out thence a handful of that yellow mettal, throws it out into the &s;treet upon the Stones, where it made a great noi&s;e and jingling in the fall; Pug was &s;o well plea&s;ed at the mu&s;ick, that he threw it out with both hands, untill he had quite emp|tied the bag; &s;everal Pa&s;&s;engers going by, made bold to pick up the&s;e golden crumbs, and putting them into their Pockets, went a|way laughing at the conceit to think what this covetous wretch had raked together out of the bowels of the indigent, and without any fear of God or man, &s;hould now be &s;o lavi&s;hly &s;quan|dred away by a ridiculous Monkey.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<P>How many are there who compa&s;s Sea and Land, and live mi&s;erably all their days, not en|joying the nece&s;&s;aries or conveniences of life, only to leave great E&s;tates to their Sons and Heirs, who very often do as prodigally wa&s;te it, and to as little purpo&s;e, as this wanton rogui&s;h Monkey did the Mi&s;ers Gold.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="67" REF="37">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XVII.</HI> The <HI>Monkey</HI> and the <HI>Mi&s;er.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A wretched Mi&s;er who did make</L>
<L>An Idol of his Gold.</L>
<L>And for mere covetou&s;ne&s;s did</L>
<L>Hunger endure and cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Neither would any &s;ervant keep</L>
<L>Only a Ma&s;tiff Dog,</L>
<L>To fright the beggers, and for &s;port</L>
<L>A Monkey with a Clog.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One day this U&s;urer went abroad</L>
<L>His Money to receive,</L>
<L>And with the&s;e tru&s;ty &s;ervants doth</L>
<L>All his concernments leave.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He was no &s;ooner gone but Pug</L>
<L>Leapt up and down amain,</L>
<L>Until at length by jumping oft</L>
<L>He chanc'd to break his chain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Finding his heels at liberty</L>
<L>He quickly &s;eeks about,</L>
<L>Being very hungry where to find</L>
<L>Some belly timber out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;ees a Window open &s;tand</L>
<L>Into which he doth creep,</L>
<L><PB N="68" REF="38">Which was the place where the wretch did</L>
<L>His gold and &s;ilver keep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He opens then the bags, and down</L>
<L>The gold doth freely fling,</L>
<L>Plea&s;ing him&s;elf how plea&s;antly</L>
<L>It on the Stones did ring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus he continued untill</L>
<L>He all had thrown away,</L>
<L>Which was to tho&s;e that pa&s;&s;ed by</L>
<L>A very plea&s;ant play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who did with much delight pick up</L>
<L>Tho&s;e golden crums, and then</L>
<L>Went away laughing at the thought,</L>
<L>How mi&s;erable men</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Deny them&s;elves of what is fit</L>
<L>Or nece&s;&s;ary; and</L>
<L>To make their Heirs Rich and Great,</L>
<L>Compa&s;s both Sea and Land,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who&s;e va&s;t E&s;tates &s;oon wa&s;ted are</L>
<L>And prodigally &s;old,</L>
<L>As vainly as the Monkey lo&s;t</L>
<L>The U&s;urers old Gold.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>There is an ancient Proverb which</L>
<L>Is generally &s;ure,</L>
<L>E&s;tates by evil means obtain'd</L>
<L>Do &s;eldom long endure.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="18" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="69" REF="38">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man and a lion in the foreground, with a horse and oxen in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XVIII.</HI> The <HI>Young Lion</HI> and the <HI>Old.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN ancient Lion among other good in|&s;tructions to his Son, gave him an expre&s;s charge, that though for his &s;trength he might ingage again&s;t any other Creature in the For|re&s;t, yet he &s;hould always be very cautious not to fight with a Man, who was &s;o full of &s;ub|tilty and craft, that it would be very difficult to Conquer him; the young Lion heard his Fa|thers di&s;cour&s;e, but in proce&s;s of time finding him&s;elf grow bigger and &s;tronger, he was fully re&s;olved to encounter with a Man on the fir&s;t occa&s;ion, &s;ince he found no Bea&s;t dur&s;t &s;tand before him, but trembled and fled at his pre|&s;ence and roaring; pa&s;&s;ing along he met with a Yoak of Oxen plowing in the Field, and com|ing near them demanded if they were Men;
<PB N="70" REF="39"> no, &s;ay they, but a Man hath put this yoak up|on our necks; going farther, he &s;aw a Hor&s;e bridled and &s;adled, with all accoutrements for a Battle, of whom he demanded, art thou a Man? no, quoth the Hor&s;e, but I am &s;ubject to a man, and &s;erve him to fight again&s;t his Enemies, to which end he put this bridle in my mouth, and a &s;addle and pi&s;tols on my back; proceeding on he ob&s;erved a Carpenter cleaving a Tree, to whom he ha&s;ted, crying out, art thou a Man? yes, &s;ays the Carpenter, I am &s;o; quoth the Lion, I am very glad of it, for I have been long &s;eeking one, and mu&s;t now fight with you; With all my heart, &s;ays he, but fir&s;t pray help me to pull this Tree in pieces, that I will &s;ays he, and &s;o with his paw pluckt it open that the Wedge fell out, upon which the Tree clo&s;ing held his foot fa&s;t within it, the man calls out for help to kill the Lion, who &s;eeing his danger with a &s;udden &s;pring gets out his toes, but leaves his Nails behind, and running home bleeding to his Father; ah, cried he, had I taken your advice I had never come to &s;uch damage and pain as I now endure.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Though young Per&s;ons think them&s;elves wi&s;er than tho&s;e that are old, yet they often find by their misfortunes, that ancient people are more experienced in the deceits and treacheries of the World than them&s;elves.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="71" REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XVIII.</HI> The <HI>Young Lion</HI> and the <HI>Old.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Lion charg'd his Son that he</L>
<L>Should very careful be,</L>
<L>Not to fight with a Man, &s;ince he</L>
<L>Was full of &s;ubtilty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The young one heard; but yet re&s;olv'd</L>
<L>That he his &s;trength would try</L>
<L>Again&s;t a man, and doubted not</L>
<L>To gain the Victory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And as he travelled along,</L>
<L>He happened to meet</L>
<L>A yoak of Oxen in the Field,</L>
<L>Whom he doth kindly greet,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And askt them, pray are you two Men?</L>
<L>The Oxen an&s;wer no,</L>
<L>But Man this yoak put on our necks</L>
<L>Wherewith you &s;ee us go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Travelling on he &s;pies a Hor&s;e,</L>
<L>Tied fa&s;t unto a Tree,</L>
<L>Sadled and Bridled for the War,</L>
<L>In all his gallantry,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="72" REF="40">
<L>And cries to him, Art thou a Man?</L>
<L>The Hor&s;e replies, Not I,</L>
<L>But I obey a Man, and fight</L>
<L>Again&s;t his enemy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He pa&s;&s;eth on, and near a Wood</L>
<L>A Carpenter doth find</L>
<L>Cleaving a Tree, to whom he goes</L>
<L>And &s;ays, Pray be &s;o kind</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To tell me if you are a Man;</L>
<L>Yes quoth the Man, I am;</L>
<L>Then you mu&s;t fight me, for to that</L>
<L>Intent I hither came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Content, &s;ays he, but with your paw</L>
<L>Pray &s;ever fir&s;t this Tree,</L>
<L>The Lion trying, fa&s;t is caught</L>
<L>And hardly could get free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length with lo&s;s of Nails he doth</L>
<L>Unto his Father go,</L>
<L>Crying had I been rul'd by you,</L>
<L>I ne're had known &s;uch woe.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Young men believe Old men are Fools,</L>
<L>And that they nothing know,</L>
<L>But Old men by experience</L>
<L>Know young men to be &s;o.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="19" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="73" REF="40">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a dog and a wolf fighting, with an ass in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XIX.</HI> The <HI>Dog, Wolf,</HI> and <HI>A&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Dog receiving a great affront from a Wolf, re&s;olved on revenge, but though his heart was good, yet thinking he had not &s;ufficient ability, he intended to procure a &s;e|cond, who might a&s;&s;i&s;t him in his de&s;ign, and after he had con&s;idered what bea&s;t he &s;hould ingage to aid him, upon mature deliberation he concluded the A&s;s to be the fitte&s;t, both by rea|&s;on of his great &s;trength, whom he had often &s;een to carry very heavy burdens, and likewi&s;e for his voice which was mighty loud, and as he fancied, like the warlike &s;ound of a Trumpet; to him then he goes, and relates the matter, earne&s;tly reque&s;ting him to ingage in his quar|rel, who he was &s;ure mu&s;t needs be very va|liant and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> hearing &s;uch com|mendations
<PB N="74" REF="41"> of him&s;elf, was not a little elevated, and readily promi&s;ed to perform his reque&s;t, &s;ay|ing; dear brother Dog, &s;ince you have &s;uch confidence in my courage, I hope I &s;hall never fail your expectation, for I am re&s;olved to ven|ture my life in your cau&s;e, and doubt not of &s;ucce&s;s again&s;t your bruti&s;h enemy; The Dog was extream joyful at his gallant re&s;olution, and &s;o they both went immediately toward the Wolfs Den, and the Dog called out to him, to give pre&s;ent reparation for the injuries he had offered him, or el&s;e prepare to lo&s;e his life, for he was re&s;olved with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his bro|ther A&s;s to fight him in&s;tantly; the Wolf not u&s;ed to &s;uch language comes out with great fu|ry, &s;narling and grining with his cruel Teeth, at the &s;ight of whom the A&s;s was &s;o terribly af|frighted, that he ran in&s;tantly away, leaving the Dog alone to combate with his inraged enemy, who finding the match unequal &s;oon after fled away likewi&s;e, and then recollecting him&s;elf; well, quoth he, I find there is no tru&s;t either in &s;trength or voice, for both the&s;e this dull A&s;s had, and yet wanted true courage, and &s;hewed him|&s;elf as much a coward as the re&s;t of his kindred.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>It is often &s;een, that the Bullies and Huffs of the Town, who make &s;uch a bu&s;tle with their Red Coats and Fea|thers, are upon Tryal very far from being truely valiant and &s;tout.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="75" REF="41">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XIX.</HI> The <HI>Dog, Wolf,</HI> and the <HI>A&s;s.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AN angry Dog a quarrel had</L>
<L>Again&s;t a Wolf, which he</L>
<L>Re&s;olved to revenge, but found</L>
<L>Him&s;elf too weak to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore a &s;econd he will have,</L>
<L>Who in his cau&s;e may fight,</L>
<L>By who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance he does hope</L>
<L>To put the Wolf to flight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length he met the A&s;s, whom he</L>
<L>Had very often &s;een</L>
<L>Great Burdens bear, and thought he &s;trong</L>
<L>And valiant had been,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His voice was likewi&s;e great and loud,</L>
<L>And like a Trumpet &s;hrill,</L>
<L>Therefore intreats that 'gain&s;t the Wolf</L>
<L>He now a&s;&s;i&s;t him will.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The A&s;s proud that he was thought &s;tout,</L>
<L>Replies, mo&s;t willingly</L>
<L>Dear Dog, I will your cau&s;e e&s;pou&s;e</L>
<L>And in your quarrel dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="76" REF="42">
<L>The Dog now thought him&s;elf cock-&s;ure</L>
<L>Of Victory and Succe&s;s,</L>
<L>And boldly challenges the Wolf</L>
<L>His injuries to redre&s;s,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf comes grinning toward them,</L>
<L>Which &s;truck the A&s;s with dread,</L>
<L>So that with might and main away</L>
<L>He from the combate fled,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And ba&s;ely leaves the Dog alone,</L>
<L>His cruel Foe to fight,</L>
<L>Who finding an unequal match,</L>
<L>Makes his e&s;cape by flight,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then reflecting thereupon,</L>
<L>He cries, I find if we</L>
<L>Of valour judge by &s;trength or voice,</L>
<L>We may mi&s;taken be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For both of the&s;e this dull A&s;s had,</L>
<L>But yet a Coward he</L>
<L>Was bred and born, which is intail'd</L>
<L>To all his progeny.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Huffing Red Coats and Feathers, may</L>
<L>Make men look big and brave,</L>
<L>Yet upon Tryal we oft find</L>
<L>They little courage have.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="20" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="77" REF="42">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XX.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>an old woman surrounded by a number of skulls</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Old Woman</HI> and the <HI>Mens Skulls.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN Old Wan travelling far from her own hou&s;e, happened to come to a certain place, where &s;everal years before, a terrible battle had been fought between two mighty Armies, and a multitude of men &s;lain, and ob&s;er|ved a great number of skulls to lye &s;cattered about the Fields; The Woman being very de|vout and &s;uper&s;titious, imagined it to be a work of humanity and charity to have them decently buried; &s;he therefore fills her Apron with many of them, and with much pains and labour, carries them a long way to find a con|venient place for their interment, which before &s;he could di&s;cover, &s;he had occa&s;ion to go
<PB N="78" REF="43"> down a very &s;teep hill, where mi&s;&s;ing her footing, all the Skulls ran out of her lap down the Hill, &s;ome one way and &s;ome another, at a great di&s;tance from each other; After &s;he had recovered her &s;elf from her fall, in&s;tead of vex|ing at her misfortune; &s;he bur&s;t out into a loud laughter, and calling after them; nay, nay, quoth &s;he, I do not at all wonder that every one of you runs a different way, &s;o far from one another, no que&s;tion it is but ju&s;t as you did when you were alive, for I believe that you could never agree then, or el&s;e you had ne|ver knockt one another on the head; accord|ing to the Old Proverb, <HI>&s;o many men &s;o many minds;</HI> After the Old Woman had plea&s;ed her &s;elf for &s;ome time with the&s;e moral con&s;idera|tions, &s;he very contentedly gathered the Skulls up again, and digging a hole in the earth &s;he there buried them together, &s;aying, you were be&s;t agree now, for if you &s;hould quarrel I &s;hall not come to part you.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>It is very fooli&s;h, ridiculous, and un|rea&s;onable for one man to impo&s;e his &s;entiments and opinions upon another in di&s;cour&s;e; much more to ruin and de&s;troy men for not thinking as they do, which is yet altogether out of their own power; according to the Proverb aforementioned,</HI> Quot homines, tot &s;ententiae. <HI>As many men, as many minds.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="79" REF="43">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XX.</HI> The <HI>Old Woman</HI> and the <HI>Mens Skulls.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Woman did a Journey take,</L>
<L>But had not travel'd far</L>
<L>Ere to a &s;pacious Field &s;he came,</L>
<L>Where in the time of War,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A bloudy battel had been fought</L>
<L>And in the mortal &s;trife,</L>
<L>Many a &s;tout and valiant man</L>
<L>Had been bereav'd of life,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While the Old Woman view'd this place.</L>
<L>Around; at length &s;he found</L>
<L>A number of mens Skulls, which lay</L>
<L>Scatter'd upon the ground,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And being much concern'd that they</L>
<L>Unburied there &s;hould lye,</L>
<L>Re&s;olv'd to take them up, and &s;o</L>
<L>Inter them decently,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And gathering many in a heap,</L>
<L>Puts them into her lap,</L>
<L>But going down a &s;teep de&s;cent</L>
<L>She met with a mi&s;hap,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For down &s;he fell, and then the Skulls</L>
<L>Out of her Apron fell,</L>
<L><PB N="80" REF="44">And all about in different ways</L>
<L>Ran &s;wiftly down the hill,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Woman never vext her &s;elf,</L>
<L>But laughing &s;aid, nay, nay,</L>
<L>I do not wonder that you all</L>
<L>Do take a &s;everal way,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For I &s;uppo&s;e that when you liv'd</L>
<L>You &s;eldom could agree,</L>
<L>But of as many minds as men</L>
<L>Commonly us'd to be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>El&s;e you had ne're come to this place</L>
<L>To be knockt on the head,</L>
<L>And in the open Field to lye</L>
<L>So long unburied.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;he had this reflection made</L>
<L>She takes them up again,</L>
<L>And digs a hole where they at length</L>
<L>Quietly did remain.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Tis fooli&s;h and ridiculous</L>
<L>That we &s;hould angry be</L>
<L>With others, 'cau&s;e they with our own</L>
<L>Opinions di&s;agree,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And wor&s;e to ruin men if they</L>
<L>With our eyes cannot &s;ee,</L>
<L>Which ne're will Converts make, but does</L>
<L>Increa&s;e Hypocri&s;ie.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="21" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="81" REF="44">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a hidden lion watching an ass and a fox</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Lion,</HI> the <HI>A&s;s,</HI> and the <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Lion marching furiou&s;ly through the Forre&s;t, as if he would de&s;troy all the Bea&s;ts therein, happened to fall into a Pit, from whence he had little hope of freeing him&s;elf, and thereupon roars &s;o terribly for help, that his voice made all the Wood tremble: The A&s;s being nigh, comes to the Pit, to &s;ee what had befaln His Soveraign, who earne&s;tly intreat|ed his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, by letting him take hold of his Tayl, thereby to &s;ave him&s;elf, and in requital he &s;olemnly promi&s;ed upon his Royal word, not on|ly to &s;pare his life, tho' he was never &s;o hungry, but likewi&s;e to free him for the future from the
<PB N="82" REF="45"> &s;lavery he had formerly endured, and that he and his &s;hould hereafter enjoy all the Liberties and Priviledges of free-born Subjects. The &s;imple A&s;s, who had a great reverence for names and Royal promi&s;es, &s;eemed very inclinable to believe and aid him, but the Fox coming by at that in&s;tant, and being inform'd of the mat|ter; Sure, quoth he, to the A&s;s, you are not &s;o great a Blockhead to credit the Lions engage|ments in his extremity; can you imagine he will ever change his bruti&s;h nature, or will re|gard any obligations made in his nece&s;&s;ity? Is it not the great happine&s;s of us all that we may now feed &s;ecurely in the Forre&s;t, without being indangered either in our Per&s;ons or young Ones by the cruel and arbitrary dealings of this barbarous Tyrant? The A&s;s, tho' of a dull and unthinking temper, yet &s;eemed to open his eyes at the di&s;creet rea&s;oning of the Fox, and &s;o they went both away together, leaving the Lion to &s;hift for him&s;elf, and get out as well as he could.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>When a People have been delivered from the Arbitrary Government of a Tyranni|cal Prince, either by their own valour, or his withdrawing from the exerci&s;e of it, it is cer|tainly the greate&s;t &s;tupidity and folly to recal him again, though upon never &s;o &s;pecious pro|mi&s;es and pretences, &s;ince he will &s;urely Reign more tyrannically than before.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="83" REF="45">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXI.</HI> The <HI>Lyon,</HI> the <HI>A&s;s,</HI> and the <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Lion marching furiou&s;ly</L>
<L>Along the Forre&s;t, fell</L>
<L>Into a Pit, and how to get</L>
<L>From thence he could not tell;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He therefore roars aloud for help,</L>
<L>Who&s;e voice did &s;o re&s;ound,</L>
<L>It made the very Fowls and Bea&s;ts</L>
<L>To tremble all around,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The A&s;s was near, and quickly heard</L>
<L>This terrible Alarm,</L>
<L>And goes to &s;ee whether the King</L>
<L>Had gotten any harm,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lion does intreat him, he</L>
<L>Will his a&s;&s;i&s;tance give,</L>
<L>For which he'll be his faithful Friend</L>
<L>As long as e're he live,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Neither will tear nor eat him, though</L>
<L>He fami&s;hed &s;hould be,</L>
<L>But he and his from &s;lavery,</L>
<L>For ever &s;hall be free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The A&s;s who great ones promi&s;es</L>
<L>And Titles did admire,</L>
<L><PB N="84" REF="46">Within him&s;elf concluded to</L>
<L>Accompli&s;h his de&s;ire,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the Fox coming by, to him</L>
<L>He doth his mind declare,</L>
<L>The Fox cries what are you &s;o dull,</L>
<L>To think he wont you tear?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Do you imagine that he can</L>
<L>His natural temper leave?</L>
<L>Therefore with Oaths and Promi&s;es</L>
<L>Do not your &s;elf deceive,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I think we may be rather glad</L>
<L>To &s;ee the Lion there,</L>
<L>Who now are free, and never need</L>
<L>His Teeth nor Claws to fear;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The A&s;s at this di&s;cour&s;e began</L>
<L>His folly to perceive,</L>
<L>And going with the Fox; their King</L>
<L>They in the Pit do leave.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>When from a Tyrants Government</L>
<L>A People are &s;et free,</L>
<L>By valour or by policy,</L>
<L>And gain their Liberty,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It may be counted madne&s;s, if</L>
<L>They him again re&s;tore,</L>
<L>Who then will &s;urely them en&s;lave</L>
<L>More than he did before.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="22" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="85" REF="46">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man and his dog meeting a serpent in a forest</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXII.</HI> The <HI>Man</HI> and the <HI>Serpent.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Great over-grown Serpent &s;triving to pa&s;s through a hedge, was catched in a &s;nare which held him &s;o fa&s;t by the neck, that he was almo&s;t &s;trangled. A man pa&s;&s;ing by, he begg'd of him to unloo&s;e him, or he mu&s;t in|&s;tantly peri&s;h; the man pitying him, &s;aid, If thou wilt &s;wear not to poi&s;on me either with thy teeth or tayl, nor do me the lea&s;t hurt, I will relea&s;e thee; the Serpent &s;wore he would never harm him while he lived; whereupon the man &s;et him free, and they travelled together a great way; at length the Serpent growing hun|gry, endeavoured to kill him; What, quoth he, ha&s;t thou &s;o &s;oon forgot thy Oath? No, &s;ays the Serpent, but famine which breaks through &s;tone
<PB N="86" REF="47"> walls forceth me to it, and makes void all vows. Well, &s;ays the man, but pray then let me live till the matter be decided by the next hone&s;t Pa&s;|&s;enger; content, quoth the Serpent, &s;o they tra|velled on, and met with the Raven and her Son, to whom the Serpent related the matter, who hoping to come in for a &s;nack, pre&s;ently cryed, The Serpent ought to eat the man: He that is a Robber, and lives by blood, is not a fit Judge, &s;ays the man, let us proceed further. Next they meet with the Bear &amp; the Wolf, who expecting a part like the Raven, were of his opinion; here|upon the Serpent &s;pits at him to de&s;troy him, &s;aying, I have had Judgment twice again&s;t thee, Ay, &s;ays the man, by murderers them&s;elves; let us expect better Arbitrators. Soon after they met with the Fox, to whom they likewi&s;e ap|peal'd; I cannot well decide it, &s;ays the Fox, unle&s;s you let the man fa&s;ten you as you were when he relea&s;ed you: The Serpent &s;uffered him&s;elf to be tyed fa&s;t; Now, &s;ays he to the man, if you will again untie him you may; no, quoth the man, there let him lie and die like an ungrateful wretch as he is, and &s;o went away laughing at the Serpents folly.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Ingratitude is the wor&s;t of all vices, and ought to be the mo&s;t &s;everely puni&s;hed, neither &s;hould Thieves and Robbers judge or determine the Cau&s;e of their Confederates.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="87" REF="47">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXII.</HI> The <HI>Man</HI> and the <HI>Serpent.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Mighty Serpent through a hedge</L>
<L>Endeavouring to &s;lide,</L>
<L>Was taken in a fatal &s;nare,</L>
<L>And certainly had died,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had not a man ju&s;t at that time,</L>
<L>Happened to pa&s;s him by,</L>
<L>To whom the Serpent for his help,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t mournfully did cry,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The man compa&s;&s;ionating him,</L>
<L>Came quickly to his aid,</L>
<L>But yet e're he reela&s;ed him</L>
<L>Unto the Serpent &s;aid,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Upon condition you will &s;wear</L>
<L>Me never to a&s;&s;ail,</L>
<L>Neither with your invenom'd Teeth,</L>
<L>Nor with your poy&s;onous Tail,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Out of the danger you are in</L>
<L>I then will you relieve,</L>
<L>And from inevitable death,</L>
<L>Your life I will reprieve,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He freely &s;wore, and was unty'd,</L>
<L>But like a treacherous &s;nake,</L>
<L><PB N="88" REF="48">Finding him&s;elf at liberty</L>
<L>He to the man thus &s;pake,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The vow I lately made did from</L>
<L>My danger then proceed,</L>
<L>And again&s;t law and rea&s;on was</L>
<L>Extorted in my need,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now my hunger is &s;o great,</L>
<L>I of nece&s;&s;ity</L>
<L>Mu&s;t eat you, or with Famine &s;oon</L>
<L>Shall mi&s;erably dye,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then quoth the man, I pray admit</L>
<L>This difference to be try'd</L>
<L>By the next hone&s;t Pa&s;&s;enger,</L>
<L>Who may the &s;ame decide,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Content &s;ays he, and then they meet</L>
<L>The Raven and the Bear,</L>
<L>And after that the Wolf, who all</L>
<L>Again&s;t the man declare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He cries, the&s;e all are Murtherers,</L>
<L>At length the Fox comes by,</L>
<L>Who hearing them, &s;ays let the man</L>
<L>Again the Serpent tye,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which done he tells the man now him</L>
<L>You may again untye,</L>
<L>No quoth he, for his treachery</L>
<L>He there de&s;erves to dye.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>They that ingrateful are de&s;erve</L>
<L>No help nor charity,</L>
<L>Neither &s;hould Thieves and Murderers of</L>
<L>Their own crimes Judges be.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="23" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="89" REF="48">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf and a fox following a mare and her foal</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXIII.</HI> The <HI>Wolf</HI> and <HI>Mare.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Fox and the Wolf travelling together, they met with a Mare which had a Fole by her &s;ide, that was very fat and &s;mooth; the Wolf was almo&s;t fami&s;ht with hunger, and de|&s;ired his Cou&s;in Reynard to go and ask the Mare what &s;he would have for her Colt; truly, &s;aith the Mare, I am in great want of money, and would willingly &s;ell him; and what do you value him at, quoth the Fox? why Brother, &s;ays &s;he, the price is written in my hinder foot, and if you plea&s;e you may read it; Excu&s;e me Brother, cryes the Fox, for I cannot read, neither do I de&s;ire to buy your Fole for my &s;elf, but am only &s;ent as a Me&s;&s;enger from the Wolf, who has a
<PB N="90" REF="49"> great mind to him; Well, &s;aid the Mare, let him come him&s;elf, and no que&s;tion but we &s;hall bar|gain: The Fox went to the Wolf, and carried this an&s;wer, asking him if he could read written hand; Read, quoth he, Do you doubt it? let me tell thee, Cou&s;in, I can read both Latine, French, Dutch and Engli&s;h; I have &s;tudied at the Uni|ver&s;ity, and di&s;puted with &s;everal Doctors; I have &s;een many famous Plays, and heard di|vers Tryals in Courts of Judicature; I have ta|ken my Degrees in the Laws, and there is no writing but I can readily under&s;tand; Well, come along then, quoth the Fox, and read the value of the Colt in the Mares foot behind: Away he goes, and de&s;ires to read the price, &s;he lifts up her hinder foot, which had a &s;trong Iron Shoe newly put on, with many &s;harp-headed Nails; and while the Wolf was earne&s;t to &s;ee the wri|ting, &s;he &s;truck him &s;o full in the forehead, that he fell over and over, and lay a long while for dead, all bloody and &s;orely wounded, while the Mare went trotting away with her Colt, and laughing at his folly and &s;tupidity. At length recovering, Cou&s;in Reynard, quoth he, what a Rogui&s;h trick has the Jade &s;erved me? for thinking the Nails had been Letters, while I was reading them, &s;he hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> me &s;o &s;trongly on the face, that I am afraid my &s;kull i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> broken. Alas Cou&s;in, quoth the Fox, I find the Proverb true in you, <HI>That the greate&s;t Scholars are not the wi&s;e&s;t me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Tho&s;e that pretend to mo&s;t Learning, and are much conceited of their own Knowledge, do many times fall into great misfortunes, and are made a &s;corn of by tho&s;e that bring them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> mi&s;chief.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="91" REF="49">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXIII.</HI> The <HI>Wolf</HI> and <HI>Mare.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Fox and Wolf together walkt</L>
<L>Along the Forre&s;t, where</L>
<L>They &s;aw a fat brisk wanton Colt,</L>
<L>Which &s;uckt a lu&s;ty Mare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf was almo&s;t &s;tarv'd, and &s;o</L>
<L>He Reynard does intreat,</L>
<L>To ask the price of him, that he</L>
<L>Might &s;omething have to eat,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox goes to the Mare, and asks</L>
<L>If &s;he her Foal will &s;ell,</L>
<L>And if &s;he willing be to trade,</L>
<L>The lowe&s;t price to tell,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Mare cryes, I will &s;ell him if</L>
<L>I can a Chapman find,</L>
<L>And for the price 'tis plainly writ</L>
<L>Upon my foot behind,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He knowing the Mares &s;ubtilty,</L>
<L>Pretends he could not read,</L>
<L>And &s;o de&s;ires to be excus'd,</L>
<L>Declaring that indeed</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It was not for him&s;elf, that he</L>
<L>Did come the Colt to buy,</L>
<L><PB N="92" REF="50">But at his uncle Wolfs reque&s;t,</L>
<L>Who was but ju&s;t hard by.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then let him come him&s;elf, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>That he the price may &s;ee,</L>
<L>And if he my propo&s;als like,</L>
<L>We quickly &s;hall agree,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox goes to the Wolf, and cries,</L>
<L>Uncle if you can read,</L>
<L>The Colt will &s;oon be yours, and you</L>
<L>On him may &s;weetly feed,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Read, quoth the Wolf, Cuz, doubt not that</L>
<L>I all my time have &s;pent</L>
<L>In learning, and in all known Tongues</L>
<L>I am mo&s;t excellent,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He then goes to the Mare, who had</L>
<L>Been newly &s;hod, to read</L>
<L>The Nails which he thought words, but whil&s;t</L>
<L>He holdeth clo&s;e his head,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The treacherous Mare upon the Skull,</L>
<L>Gives him &s;o &s;mart a blow,</L>
<L>As the poor Wolf had almo&s;t kill'd,</L>
<L>And backward did him throw,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox then cries. Uncle I find</L>
<L>The ancient Proverb true,</L>
<L><HI>Great Schollars are not always wi&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>As now 'tis &s;een by you.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e that pretend to under&s;tand,</L>
<L>More than they truly know,</L>
<L>Are oft abus'd and mockt by them</L>
<L>That &s;eek their overthrow.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="24" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="93" REF="50">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf and a nightingale by a tree</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXIV.</HI> The <HI>Nightingale</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Wolf being almo&s;t fami&s;ht with hunger travelled many Miles, and could find no' booty, at length, as he pa&s;&s;ed through a Wood he heard a Nightingale &s;ing very loudly and harmoniou&s;ly: The Wolf was mighty glad of the adventure, concluding with him&s;elf that this mu&s;t needs be &s;ome large Fowl, and that he ought to &s;pare for no pains nor labour to obtain her, &s;ince he did not que&s;tion but the purcha&s;e of &s;uch a delicate Banquet would &s;uf|ficiently recompen&s;e all the care and trouble he could be at in getting her. Pur&s;uant to this re&s;olution he follows the pretty Bird by her
<PB N="94" REF="51"> voice, &s;ince by the thickne&s;s of the leaves he he could not &s;ee her. Thus with unwearied di|ligence he continued many days hearkening to the melodious &s;trains of poor innocent Philo|mel, as &s;he flew from tree to tree, and from bu&s;h to bu&s;h, little &s;u&s;pecting the treachery that was de&s;igned again&s;t her. At length by his con&s;tant and continual watchfulne&s;s, the Wolf takes an opportunity to &s;urprize and &s;eize the unfortu|nate Nightingale e're &s;he was aware: But when he had got her, he was more &s;urprized than &s;he: Sure, quoth he, my eyes are not my own; cer|tainly it is impo&s;&s;ible that &s;o &s;mall an Animal as thou art &s;hould&s;t make &s;o great a noi&s;e, who art nothing but tail and feather; I did expect that thou had&s;t been as big as a wild Goo&s;e or a wild Duck at lea&s;t, and reckoned upon it to have made a hearty meal of thee; but alas, how &s;trangely am I di&s;appointed, and what a &s;lender requital &s;hall I have, for the watching and fa&s;t|ing which I have patiently endured &s;o many days in pur&s;uit of thee, when in&s;tead of a belly|full, I find thou wilt only be a mouth-full, and therefore utterly uncapable to &s;atisfie my hungry appetite?</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Great men do many times make large promi&s;es, and pretend to effect mighty mutters for others, but their perfor|mances too often vani&s;h into words and air only, to the lo&s;s and di&s;appointment of tho&s;e that put confidence in them.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="95" REF="51">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXIV.</HI> The <HI>Nightingale</HI> and the <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>AN hungry Wolf walking his rounds,</L>
<L>He happened to hear</L>
<L>A Nightingale within a Bu&s;h,</L>
<L>Which &s;ung both loud and clear,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And by the &s;hrilne&s;s of her voice</L>
<L>He doubted not but &s;he</L>
<L>A &s;tately Fowl was, and to him</L>
<L>A gallant prize would be;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He follows her from bu&s;h to bu&s;h,</L>
<L>And then from tree to tree,</L>
<L>Being directed by her voice,</L>
<L>Though her he could not &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus diligently he pur&s;ues</L>
<L>The poor Bird many days,</L>
<L>Who of her danger ignorant,</L>
<L>Sings her delightful lays.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length when with unwearied pains,</L>
<L>He her de&s;truction &s;ought,</L>
<L>By lying clo&s;e in ambu&s;cade,</L>
<L>Poor <HI>Philomel</HI> he caught,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="96" REF="52">
<L>But when he was po&s;&s;e&s;t of her,</L>
<L>And well ob&s;erv'd his prize,</L>
<L>His mind was &s;o di&s;turb'd, that he</L>
<L>Could &s;carce believe his eyes:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Art thou, quoth he, that Animal</L>
<L>Which &s;o much noi&s;e did make?</L>
<L>And have I been at &s;o great toil,</L>
<L>And trouble for thy &s;ake?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I hardly can believe that thou</L>
<L>Can&s;t po&s;&s;ibly be &s;he,</L>
<L>Who with &s;o &s;trong and clear a &s;ound,</L>
<L>Sung thus melodiou&s;ly,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if it real be, I find</L>
<L>Thou nothing art but voice,</L>
<L>And that I little cau&s;e have, at</L>
<L>My bargain to rejoice,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Becau&s;e I doubted not to make</L>
<L>A Belly full of thee:</L>
<L>But to my grief I now find, thou</L>
<L>Wil't &s;carce a mouthful be.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Great men do often others feed</L>
<L>With hopes, and with fair words,</L>
<L>Yet their performance is &s;o &s;mall,</L>
<L>It nought but air affords.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="25" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="97" REF="52">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a stag carrying an injured dog on its back, and a fox</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXV.</HI> The <HI>Deer</HI> and <HI>Hound.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Deer inhabiting in a large Forre&s;t, had one time the fortune to &s;ee a couple of Hounds cour&s;ing a Hare over a great field; but being eager in their pur&s;uit, one of the Dogs leaping very eagerly over a hedge, broke his Leg, whereby poor Wat made his e&s;cape, becau&s;e the other without his fellows a&s;&s;i&s;tance was not able to &s;eize her: The Stag having ob&s;erved all from her &s;helter where &s;he was &s;afe, ventured out, &s;eeming much concerned that the Hound who had &s;hewed &s;o much briskne&s;s in the Cha&s;e, &s;hould peri&s;h for want of help, and therefore much pitying his condition, &s;he offered to car|ry him to the next Village, and accordingly
<PB N="98" REF="53"> took him upon her back, in order to convey him to the Town adjoyning: In the way the Deer was di&s;cour&s;ing how happy he and his fellows &s;hould be if the Hounds would not ma|liciou&s;ly follow them by the &s;cent to de&s;troy them, and how unrea&s;onable it was for them to make war upon tho&s;e who ne're offered them the lea&s;t injury, nor gave them any occa&s;ion for that &s;evere treatment which they received from them, while this communication la&s;ted, they were overtaken by a Fox, who having over|heard what they had been talking of, came up to the Stag, and &s;aid, Sir, by your di&s;cour&s;e you &s;eem to be a &s;en&s;ible Creature, and have rightly argued again&s;t the inju&s;tice of the Hounds, and yet directly contrary hereunto, you now carry one of the greate&s;t Enemies you have upon your back, who is at open ho&s;tility with you and all your Race; and if your life were in his power, as his is in yours, I dare a&s;|&s;ure you, he would &s;hew you no mercy: The Stag was a little concern'd at this rea&s;oning of the Fox, and began to think of throwing him off his back, but recollecting him&s;elf; Well, quoth he, tho' what you &s;ay may be true, and he &s;hould be &s;o un|grateful, yet &s;ince I have given him my word to a&s;&s;i&s;t him, I am re&s;olved to leave him in a place of &s;ecurity.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>A generous Per&s;on who hath his unknown Enemy in his power, when he hath once pa&s;&s;ed his word to protect and &s;ave him, will certainly keep his Faith with him.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="99" REF="53">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXV.</HI> The <HI>Deer</HI> and <HI>Hound.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Deer in a large Forre&s;t dwelt,</L>
<L>Where he once chanc't to view</L>
<L>A Hare, which through a &s;pacious Field,</L>
<L>Two Hounds did clo&s;e pur&s;ue,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But one more eager was, who as</L>
<L>He o're a hedge did leap,</L>
<L>Happen'd to break his Leg, whereby</L>
<L>Poor Wat made his e&s;cape,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Deer the whole ob&s;erved from</L>
<L>The Covert where he was</L>
<L>Secure, and coming out, upon</L>
<L>The Hound compa&s;&s;ion has,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And cries, what pitty 'tis that he</L>
<L>Which &s;hew'd him&s;elf to be</L>
<L>So brisk even now, by a mi&s;chance,</L>
<L>Should live in mi&s;ery,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And therefore out of kindne&s;s, he</L>
<L>Offers his help to carry</L>
<L>Him on his back to the next Town,</L>
<L>For fear he &s;hould mi&s;carry,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox this loving Porter meets,</L>
<L>Thus loaded by the way,</L>
<L><PB N="100" REF="54">And cries, dear Brother do you know,</L>
<L>What you are doing? Pray</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Con&s;ider that upon your back</L>
<L>Your greate&s;t enemy</L>
<L>You bear, who if he were not lame</L>
<L>Your death would quickly be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Since he and all his race 'gain&s;t you,</L>
<L>Do open War proclaim,</L>
<L>And how to murder you and yours</L>
<L>Continually do aim.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Deer was &s;omewhat &s;tartled at</L>
<L>This his di&s;cour&s;e, but yet</L>
<L>Quoth he, I have a promi&s;e made</L>
<L>In &s;afety him to &s;et,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore if he ingrateful be,</L>
<L>And again&s;t me combine,</L>
<L>The villany lies on his &s;ide</L>
<L>And not at all on mine.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Generous Man who gives his Faith</L>
<L>For the &s;ecurity</L>
<L>Of one, who afterwards he knows</L>
<L>To be his Enemy,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet &s;corns to break his word with him,</L>
<L>But will perform the &s;ame,</L>
<L>And though indamaged thereby</L>
<L>Yet &s;till pre&s;erves his fame.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="26" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="101" REF="54">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a wolf and a fox, and some apes in a cave</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB XXVI.</HI> The <HI>Wolf</HI> and <HI>Apes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Wolf in the mid&s;t of Winter was ready to die for want, but happening to meet with a Fox, whom he ob&s;erved to be fat and in good ca&s;e, he asked him how he came to live &s;o well in that hard &s;ea&s;on: The Fox &s;hewed him where the Ape &amp; her young lay in the Den, &s;ay|ing, If it had not been for that charitable crea|ture, I &s;hould have wanted as much as you, but there I have often been invited, and found kind entertainment, witne&s;s the fragments of my Sup|per la&s;t night, and therewith gave the Wolf &s;ome remains of his meat, which he eat up with much greedine&s;s, de&s;iring the Fox to tell him how he might get into favour with the Ape;
<PB N="102" REF="55"> That is not very difficult, quoth he, it is only by framing your &s;elf to flattery and lying: If that be all, quoth the Wolf, I can &s;oon practi&s;e it, and thereupon runs with all &s;peed to the Den, but was no &s;ooner in e're he cryed out, Ah fough! what a na&s;ty filthy &s;tink is here? and then &s;eeing the Old Ape hugging her deformed young ones; Surely, quoth he, in my whole life I never &s;aw &s;uch ugly creatures as the&s;e are; whereat the Apes being inraged, they all fell upon him to|gether, one biting him by the No&s;e, another by the Neck, and the re&s;t in other places, &s;o that he was forced to run out with all &s;peed to &s;ave his life; and finding the Fox, related his mi&s;|fortune to him; You are well enough &s;erved, quoth he, &s;ince you forgot my coun&s;el, and &s;poke truth when you &s;hould have told lyes: Why, do you think I had lo&s;t my &s;melling and eye-&s;ight? and yet I told the Ape that her hou&s;e was perfumed with &s;weet Wood, and that I was mightily plea&s;ed to &s;ee &s;uch a beautiful Lady have &s;uch a fine off-&s;pring of young ones to keep up the family; upon which the be&s;t in the hou&s;e was &s;et before me, but during Supper I was very careful not to &s;peak a word of truth, and hereby I was treated &s;o gallantly; or el&s;e might have &s;tarved as you are like to do, e're you have any relief from her.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Mo&s;t men are too much plea&s;ed with flattery, and nothing is more di&s;obliging than to tell them their faults, or impartially to cen&s;ure their actions.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB REF="55">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXVI.</HI> The <HI>Wolf</HI> and the <HI>Apes.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Wolf in Winter almo&s;t &s;tarv'd,</L>
<L>Who nothing had to eat,</L>
<L>Neither could po&s;&s;ibly contrive</L>
<L>Provi&s;ion how to get,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Happen'd to meet a Fox, who look't</L>
<L>So fat, and plump and well,</L>
<L>That the Wolf cries, I prethee Cuz,</L>
<L>Be but &s;o kind, to tell</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How thou do&s;t thus maintain thy &s;elf,</L>
<L>And art in &s;uch good plight,</L>
<L>Ah quoth the Fox; the Ape's my friend</L>
<L>Who oft doth me invite.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into his Den, who nobly lives</L>
<L>And where I need not fear</L>
<L>To meet with Turkies, Gee&s;e, and Hens,</L>
<L>And other dainty cheer,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ays the Wolf, can you tell how</L>
<L>I may her favour get,</L>
<L>And thereby be partaker of</L>
<L>This plenteous &s;tore of meat?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yes Uncle, &s;ays the Fox, if you</L>
<L>Can lie and flatter well,</L>
<L><PB N="104" REF="56">But have a care what e're you &s;ee,</L>
<L>The Truth you never tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That's quickly learnt quoth he, and then</L>
<L>Into the Den he goes,</L>
<L>And cries, Foh, what a na&s;ty &s;tink</L>
<L>Is this offends my no&s;e?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then &s;eeing how the young Apes were</L>
<L>Imbraced by the old,</L>
<L>They are the uglie&s;t things, quoth he,</L>
<L>That e're I did behold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Cubs inrag'd upon him fell,</L>
<L>And wounded him all o're,</L>
<L>So that to &s;ave his life, with &s;peed</L>
<L>He run out of the door,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And meeting with the Fox, he does</L>
<L>His &s;ad misfortune tell,</L>
<L>Who cry'd, you for your folly do</L>
<L>De&s;erve it very well,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What do you think I could not &s;ee,</L>
<L>And &s;mell as well as you?</L>
<L>Yet I the old one Lady call'd,</L>
<L>And prais'd the young ones too.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Mo&s;t men love flattery, and &s;carce</L>
<L>Can ever truly love</L>
<L>Any, that plainly of their faults</L>
<L>Or vices them reprove.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="27" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="105" REF="56">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXVII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>one dog barking at the moon and one dog hung from the branch of a tree</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Dog</HI> and <HI>Moon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Surly ill natured Dog, in a Moon-&s;hiny night bark't and bawl'd ince&s;&s;antly at the Moon, to the great di&s;turbance and vexa|tion of the Neighbourhood, who hearing him make &s;uch a violent noi&s;e, came out of their Hou&s;es to &s;ee what the matter was, and perceiv|ing the ridiculous occa&s;ion thereof, one of the men coming up and calling to him, what an in&s;ipid and &s;en&s;ele&s;s Cur art thou, quoth he, to &s;pend thy Lungs and thy labour in &s;uch an un|profitable imployment? for if thou &s;hould&s;t tear
<PB N="106" REF="57"> thy heart out with yelping, yet the Moon is &s;o far above thy rage or malice, being placed in &s;o high an Orb, and at &s;uch a va&s;t di&s;tance from thee, that &s;he will &s;till continue her cour&s;e and cannot receive the lea&s;t interruption or di&s;|quiet by thy fooli&s;h and filthy howling; but all this good coun&s;el was utterly thrown away upon this incon&s;iderate Whelp, who &s;till con|tinued his ungrateful barking; &s;o that at length he became &s;uch a nu&s;ance to the people, as they all unanimou&s;ly concluded he de&s;erved to be hanged, and accordingly catching him, they re&s;olved to &s;ilence his noi&s;e, le&s;t his example &s;hould incourage other Curs to join in the con|&s;ort, and &s;o make a univer&s;al di&s;traction; ac|cordingly this ju&s;t Sentence was executed upon him, and &s;o this &s;illy animal lo&s;t his life in pro|jecting to perform improbable as well as im|po&s;&s;ible attempts.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>The only argument to &s;ilence and con|vince tho&s;e ill natured, ambitious and di&s;content|ed People who bark and murmur again&s;t the be&s;t of Princes, and the be&s;t of Governments, (which is faulty in nothing but in being too mild and too merciful, to &s;uch ingrateful wretches) is certain|ly that which quieted the Cur before mentioned, that is a Halter; which is the only way to pre|vent them from di&s;turbing others, as well as ruining them&s;elves.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="107" REF="57">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXVII.</HI> The <HI>Dog</HI> and <HI>Moon.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A &s;narling ill bred Countrey Cur,</L>
<L>In a cold Winter night,</L>
<L>Again&s;t the Moon, which then &s;hone bright,</L>
<L>Did bark with all his might,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereby he &s;uch a noi&s;e did make,</L>
<L>The neighbours went to &s;ee,</L>
<L>What the occa&s;ion of his rage</L>
<L>And fury then &s;hould be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when they came and &s;aw the Whelp</L>
<L>Such mighty pains to take,</L>
<L>And to &s;o little purpo&s;e, &s;uch</L>
<L>A bellowing, to make;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They cry; Thou &s;en&s;ele&s;s Puppy Dog,</L>
<L>Why do&s;t thou &s;hew thy &s;pight</L>
<L>Toward the Moon? again&s;t whom thou</L>
<L>Can'&s;t only bark not bite,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who in her Orb beyond thy reach,</L>
<L>Is placed in the Sky,</L>
<L>And all attempts of whifling Curs</L>
<L>Doth utterly defie,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But this good coun&s;el on the Dog</L>
<L>Had no effect at all,</L>
<L><PB N="108" REF="58">So that he &s;till continued</L>
<L>Ince&s;&s;antly to bawl:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which &s;o di&s;turb'd the People, that</L>
<L>They all concluded, he</L>
<L>As a &s;editious Mutineer</L>
<L>De&s;erv'd the Gallow Tree,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in pur&s;uance of this ju&s;t</L>
<L>And Legal &s;entence, they</L>
<L>To pre&s;ent execution</L>
<L>Did carry him away,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Le&s;t others &s;hould incouragement</L>
<L>From his example take,</L>
<L>Whereby a great di&s;traction</L>
<L>Among them it might make,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o this &s;illy Animal</L>
<L>Like a dull fool did die,</L>
<L>Vainly attempting to hurt tho&s;e,</L>
<L>That were for him too high.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e dangerous Per&s;ons who con&s;pire</L>
<L>And rail again&s;t their Prince,</L>
<L>Although the be&s;t of Kings; there's nought</L>
<L>More proper to convince,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of their great folly, than the means</L>
<L>Us'd to this bawling Whelp,</L>
<L>For if all other Med'cines fail,</L>
<L>A Halter &s;ure will help.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="28" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="109" REF="58">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>two men clubbing a bear, and a fox in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXVIII.</HI> The <HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THere happened a quarrel between the Bear and the Fox; but being &s;eemingly reconci|led, the Bear one day meeting the Fox, cryed, Cou&s;in, how do you? are you in health? Truly, quoth the Fox, not very well, for I am afraid I got a &s;urfeit lately by feeding on meat I do not u&s;ually eat: Pray what might that be, quoth the Bear? That, quoth the Fox, which &s;ome Great ones count a dainty, but I had rather ta&s;te a limb of a Hen. In &s;hort Uncle, it was Honey-combs whereof I eat &s;o freely, that I have been ill ever &s;ince; Honey-combs, quoth the Bear! &s;ure 'tis the be&s;t victuals upon Earth: Nephew, I hope you don't &s;light Honey; if you could
<PB N="110" REF="59"> help me to &s;ome, you would for ever oblige me: Sure you do but je&s;t, quoth the Fox; No, &s;ays he, I am &s;erious, give me but my belly full of Honey, and command me as you plea&s;e: Well Uncle, &s;ays the Fox, I'le &s;oon carry you where there is enough to &s;erve you &s;even years: The Bear was even ravi&s;ht for joy, and in&s;tantly they went together toward a place where there was a large old Tree, wherein a Carpenter had drove two wedges in order to cleave it; Rey|nard re&s;olving on revenge for former affronts, cryed out, Look there Uncle, get but into that cleft, and you will find Honey enough, but pray don't over-eat your &s;elf: I warrant you, quoth the Bear, I'le take care, and &s;o with much ha&s;te entred the Tree with his two feet forward, thru&s;ting his head into the cleft quite over his ears; which the Fox ob&s;erving, in&s;tantly ran and pluckt out the wedges, &s;o that he lockt the Bear fa&s;t therein; who unable to free him&s;elf, made &s;o much noi&s;e and houling, that the Car|penter coming out, and finding &s;uch a prize, called all his Neighbours to kill the Bear; who perceiving his danger, with much &s;trugling got out his head, but left the &s;kin of his ears and claws behind him, and &s;o ran bleeding away, being laught at by the Fox for tru&s;ting to the friend&s;hip of a reconciled Enemy.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Some will venture their necks to fill their bellies. Again, if you have once offended an evil man, it is very dan|gerous tru&s;ting him any more.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="111" REF="59">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXVIII.</HI> The <HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Bear in travelling the Woods,</L>
<L>The Fox did chance to meet,</L>
<L>And all old quarrels laid a&s;ide,</L>
<L>He Reynard thus did greet,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How is it with you, worthy Friend?</L>
<L>Are you in health or not?</L>
<L>No quoth the Fox, I am afraid</L>
<L>A &s;urfeit I have got,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By eating of unu&s;ual fare</L>
<L>Which with me don't agree,</L>
<L>Though by Great Ones I know &s;uch food</L>
<L>Much valued to be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sir I de&s;ire, quoth the Bear,</L>
<L>That you would let me know,</L>
<L>What kind of victuals it might be</L>
<L>That you offended &s;o,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Twas only Honey, Sir, of which</L>
<L>Cloying and ful&s;ome meat,</L>
<L>I doubt too great a quantity</L>
<L>I happen'd late to eat,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Honey, quoth Bruin! Sir, but that</L>
<L>I know you to be wi&s;e,</L>
<L><PB N="112" REF="60">I your di&s;cretion &s;hould &s;u&s;pect</L>
<L>If Honey you de&s;pi&s;e:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if of that delicious food</L>
<L>Enough you me will give,</L>
<L>Your Servant, yea your Slave I'le be,</L>
<L>As long as e're I live,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well quoth the Fox, go but with me,</L>
<L>And I will &s;hew you where,</L>
<L>You &s;oon may get your belly full,</L>
<L>And have enough to &s;pare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear goes joyfully, the Fox</L>
<L>Shews him a hollow Tree,</L>
<L>Wherein a Wedge was, and affirms</L>
<L>Honey therein to be,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear thru&s;ts in his head, the Fox</L>
<L>The Wedge plucks out, whereby</L>
<L>The Tree does clo&s;e, and the poor Bear</L>
<L>Surprizeth in&s;tantly,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who roaring loud the men come out,</L>
<L>And many blows do lay</L>
<L>Upon him, &s;o that he with life</L>
<L>Hardly e&s;cap't away.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>None but dull Fools will dangers run</L>
<L>Their ta&s;te to gratifie,</L>
<L>Nor will a wi&s;e man tru&s;t him, who</L>
<L>Was once his enemy.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="29" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="113" REF="60">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>an ape sitting on a dolphin</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXIX.</HI> The <HI>Dolphin</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Ship Sailing from <HI>Athens</HI> full of Pa&s;&s;en|gers, was bound to &s;ome other Port in the Mediterranean Sea, but a &s;torm ari&s;ing the Wind blew &s;o very hard that the Ship was dri|ven again&s;t a Rock with &s;uch violence as &s;he &s;eemed to be &s;plit into a thou&s;and peices; howe|ver the leak was not &s;o great, but the People had time to &s;hift for them&s;elves, and the &s;hip break|ing in a little time, &s;ome endeavoured to &s;ave them&s;elves upon the Ma&s;t, others upon the broken Ribs, and other pieces of the Ve&s;&s;el; among the re&s;t an Ape which was in the compa|ny, got upon a board and &s;wom along till he was met by a Dolphin, which Fi&s;h being ge|nerally
<PB N="114" REF="61"> thought to have a natural love and af|fection for mankind, &s;eeing the Ape in this po&s;ture, and &s;uppo&s;ing him to be &s;ome little man who had made his e&s;cape out of the Ship|wrack, he &s;wims toward him, and the Ape glad of his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, leaps upon his back; the Dolphin then made toward the Shoar to land his Pa&s;&s;enger, and in the way, falling into di&s;|cour&s;e with the Ape, inquired what countrey|man he was; I am a Gentleman of
<HI>Athens</HI> quoth he, de&s;cended from one of the mo&s;t ho|nourable Families in that Countrey; then you know <HI>Pireus</HI> very well, &s;ays the Dolphin, which was the name of the chief Port or Haven be|longing to the City; but the Ape mi&s;taking it for a Gentlemans name; know him, quoth he ay, very well, he is my fir&s;t Cozen on the mothers &s;ide, and a per&s;on of great worth and quality, with whom I am very intimately acquainted: I find Sirrah, &s;ays the Dolphin, that you are a ve|ry impudent lying ra&s;cal, and fitter to be drown|ed than &s;aved, being &s;orry I have already taken &s;o much pains to pre&s;erve you; but to rid the World of &s;uch a Villain, I will in&s;tant|ly di&s;patch you, and therewith &s;inking to the bottom carried poor Pug down with him, who there left his life and his lying together.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Vanity and lying do often bring dan|ger and de&s;truction upon tho&s;e that are addicted thereunto.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="115" REF="61">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXIX.</HI> The <HI>Dolphin</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Ship from <HI>Athens</HI> Sail'd, and by</L>
<L>A Tempe&s;t run aground,</L>
<L>Before &s;he could arrive unto</L>
<L>The Port where &s;he was bound:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then every man &s;hifts for him&s;elf,</L>
<L>Striving with might and main,</L>
<L>On boards and pieces of the Ship,</L>
<L>The nighe&s;t &s;hoar to gain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among the re&s;t an Ape was there,</L>
<L>Who on a board was got,</L>
<L>And by the fury of the Waves</L>
<L>He up and down did float:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Dolphin, who is &s;aid to be</L>
<L>A lover of mankind,</L>
<L>In this mo&s;t dangerous e&s;tate</L>
<L>Happen'd poor Pug to find,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thinking him a little man</L>
<L>By Shipwrack ca&s;t away,</L>
<L>He kindly offered him to land,</L>
<L>In &s;afety to convey,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dolphin then asks who he was,</L>
<L>And from what place he came,</L>
<L><PB N="116" REF="62">I &s;ail'd from <HI>Athens</HI> Sir, quoth he,</L>
<L>A City of great fame,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where 'tis well known, I am a man</L>
<L>Of wealth and dignity,</L>
<L>Being de&s;cended of an high</L>
<L>And noble Family,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then, quoth the Dolphin, you well know</L>
<L><HI>Pireus;</HI> yes cries he,</L>
<L>He is my kin&s;man, and a man</L>
<L>Of worth and quality,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah, quoth the Dolphin I much doubt</L>
<L>That you a villain are,</L>
<L>And am concern'd that I to &s;ave</L>
<L>Your life took &s;o much care;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Pireus</HI> no mans name's, but</L>
<L>A Haven of that Town,</L>
<L>And for your knavery and lies</L>
<L>You in&s;tantly I'le drown,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And therewith &s;inking, carries Pug</L>
<L>Down with him too, where he</L>
<L>His lying and his life both left</L>
<L>I'th' bottom of the Sea.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Fal&s;hood, and lies, and vanity,</L>
<L>Do commonly undo</L>
<L>Tho&s;e idle fooli&s;h men, who are</L>
<L>Addicted thereunto.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="30" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="117" REF="62">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a vulture on a throne with other birds before it</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXX.</HI> The <HI>Magpies, Vulture</HI> and <HI>Eagle.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Birds being de&s;titute of a King, they at length concluded to advance the Vulture to the Throne, though they were not in&s;en&s;ible of his fierce and cruel temper: But the Solemn Oaths and Promi|&s;es he made that every Bird &s;hould enjoy his own Ne&s;t, as before, without the lea&s;t di&s;turbance, prevailed &s;o much upon the Falcons, Herns, Storks, and other high flying Birds, but e&s;pecially with the Magpies, that they admitted him to the Government: He was no &s;ooner &s;etled, but he made it apparent how quickly he had forgot his Obligations; and by the Advice of the Ra|vens he drove divers of the Storks and Magpies from their antient Ne&s;ts, and be&s;towed them upon the Ra|vens: This &s;o incen&s;ed them, that they re&s;olved to call the Eagle to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, who no &s;ooner ap|peared, but the Vulture being &s;en&s;ible of the injuries he had offered them, fled in great fear to a thick Wood ad|joyning, and &s;heltred him&s;elf in the Dragons Den, and
<PB N="118" REF="63"> the Eagle was made King with the general con&s;ent and applau&s;e of the Fowls and Birds, and governed the feather'd Nation with great Ju&s;tice and Valour. After a while &s;ome few Storks, Magpies, Buzzards, Owls and Batts grew di&s;contented, pretending that they could not build their Ne&s;ts &s;o high as they de&s;ired, for they now expected to lodge them&s;elves in the Cedar Trees, and not in &s;uch &s;hrubs as they formerly were u&s;ed to: Hereupon they &s;ecretly a&s;&s;emble a number of Birds, de|claring their grievances, and that nothing would relieve them but to recall the Vulture again, and depo&s;e the Eagle: One of the Magpies then &s;tood up and demand|ed what &s;ecurity the Vulture could give that he would not treat them as bad, if not wor&s;e than he did before, if ever he &s;hould return again: For, quoth he, The Vulture hath already forfeited his honour and word to us, and what hath he now left, e&s;pecially &s;ince his con|ver&s;e with the Dragon, who is the declared Enemy of all the feather'd Race, and according to the nature of that venomous Serpent, re&s;olves to burn and de&s;troy all before him? The&s;e rea&s;ons convinced the genera|lity of the Birds, only three or four Storks, Magpies Buzzards, Owls and Batts, upon the di&s;covery of their ill de&s;igns fled to the Vulture; of which the Eagle having notice, and perceiving their fickle and perfidious humour, he proclaimed them and their Ad|herents Enemies to the whole Society; and thereby defeated their fooli&s;h and ridiculous Attempts, expo|&s;ing them as the mo&s;t &s;en&s;le&s;s and ungrateful of all the Fowls of the Air.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>When a Prince hath broken his Oaths, and thereby lo&s;t his Reputation with his Subjects, they ought never to regard any future A&s;&s;urances he can give them; and tho&s;e who would per&s;wade them to recal and tru&s;t him, &s;hould be reckoned the wor&s;t of Enemies to their Countrey and Po&s;terity.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="119" REF="63">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXX.</HI> The <HI>Magpies, Vulture</HI> and <HI>Eagle.</HI></HEAD>
<L>THE Birds and Fowls without a King</L>
<L>Being left, the Vulture cho&s;e,</L>
<L>Ju&s;tly to govern them, and to</L>
<L>Defend them from their Foes;</L>
<L>And though they his fierce temper knew,</L>
<L>Yet &s;ince he was allied,</L>
<L>By blood and con&s;anguinity,</L>
<L>Unto their Prince that died,</L>
<L>They make him King upon his Oaths</L>
<L>And Promi&s;es, that he</L>
<L>Will let each Bird enjoy his ne&s;t,</L>
<L>From all di&s;turbance free:</L>
<L>But he his vows forgot, and to</L>
<L>The Ravens did adhere,</L>
<L>And from their ancient Ne&s;ts, the Storks</L>
<L>And Magpies driven were,</L>
<L>And Crows and Ravens plac't in them,</L>
<L>Who were abhor'd by all</L>
<L>The Fowls and Birds within the Wood,</L>
<L>The great as well as &s;mall:</L>
<L>Then &s;ecretly the Princely Bird</L>
<L>The Eagle, they implore</L>
<L>That he will his a&s;&s;i&s;tance give,</L>
<L>From the adjoining &s;hoar,</L>
<L>The Eagle hears and &s;oon arrives,</L>
<L>Whereat the Vulture flies</L>
<L>Away unto the Dragon, and</L>
<L>Within his den he lies,</L>
<L>They then declare the Eagle, by</L>
<L>A General Decree,</L>
<L><PB N="120" REF="64">To be their King, who rul'd them with</L>
<L>Ju&s;tice and Equity,</L>
<L>Yet &s;ome few Storks and Magpies, do</L>
<L>Again&s;t their Prince complain,</L>
<L>Plotting to drive him out, and bring</L>
<L>The Vulture back again,</L>
<L>Crying, they di&s;appointed were</L>
<L>Who did believe that now,</L>
<L>They &s;hould have higher ro&s;e, and not</L>
<L>Still build their Ne&s;ts below.</L>
<L>A Magpie wi&s;er than the re&s;t,</L>
<L>To them doth repre&s;ent</L>
<L>The danger and &s;tupidity,</L>
<L>Of this their ill intent;</L>
<L>That the Vulture his Faith hath broke,</L>
<L>Quoth he, to all is plain,</L>
<L>And why &s;hould you believe, that he</L>
<L>Won't do the &s;ame again?</L>
<L>Since by the Dragon he is taught,</L>
<L>That he &s;hould never care</L>
<L>To perform any thing, which he</L>
<L>Shall either &s;ay or &s;wear?</L>
<L>The&s;e Arguments mo&s;t of the Birds</L>
<L>Did fully &s;atisfie,</L>
<L>Only &s;ome Buzards, Storks and Pies,</L>
<L>Did to the Vulture fly,</L>
<L>The Eagle &s;oon their treachery</L>
<L>And folly too doth &s;ee,</L>
<L>And traytors to the common wealth</L>
<L>Of Birds, declares they be.</L>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>He that his Faith and Honour both</L>
<L>Hath forfeited before,</L>
<L>By none but Fools and Madmen will</L>
<L>Be ever tru&s;ted more.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="31" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="121" REF="64">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a fake astrologer with his audience</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXXI.</HI> The <HI>Mock A&s;trologer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Pretended A&s;trologer that wanted nei|ther ignorance nor impudence, and boa&s;t|ed to read the fate and fortune of all Princes, States, and Per&s;ons in the Book of the Stars, yet gained &s;o little reputation for his Skill in that &s;ublime Science, that had he not publi&s;hed his Mountebank Bills, and fixt them upon every Po&s;t, he would never have been heard of, nor found out: But his Lying Libels of re&s;olving all manner of Que&s;tions, pa&s;t, pre&s;ent, and to come, drew in &s;ome &s;illy creatures of both Sexes, whereby he &s;ometimes cheated them of a &s;hilling, by promi&s;ing to tell them by his Art, whether one ab&s;ent be dead or alive; whether they &s;hall be Rich or Poor; whether a per&s;on
<PB N="122" REF="65"> &s;hall live long or not; if one &s;hall have Chil|dren; if they &s;hould marry rich; if a Dam&s;el be a Maid; if a Woman be cha&s;t; if it be good to take Phy&s;ick; if the &s;ick party &s;hall die; if it be a good time to marry; if a Ship &s;hall come home &s;afe; whether a Marriage promi&s;e &s;hall be performed; if the Thief &s;hall be taken, and twenty other idle and impertinent &s;tories. At length when the money came in by this canting knavery, the fellow began to have a good conceit of him&s;elf, and there happening a great Eclip&s;e of the Moon one night, he in|vited a number of people into the Fields, pretending he would di&s;cover to them the De|&s;tinies of all the Potentates in the World pro|ceeding from the Effects of this notable E|clip&s;e; but while he was very earne&s;tly ob&s;er|ving the Moon and Stars through his Tele|&s;copes and other In&s;truments, he happened to fall into a deep Pit full of water, where not being relieved in time, he mi&s;erably peri&s;ht; whereat the people could not forbear laughing, to think that he who boa&s;ted to have the knowledge of the good or ill fortune of others, &s;hould yet be ignorant of his own wretched fate, like his old Friend <HI>Will. Lilly,</HI> who could foretell what would befal others, and yet did not know who perfum'd his own Door.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Some per&s;ons pretend much knowledge and skill in other peoples affairs, and yet are utterly &s;trangers to that which concerns them&s;elves.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="123" REF="65">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXI.</HI> The Mock <HI>A&s;trologer.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Mountebank A&s;trologer</L>
<L>Who did pretend that he,</L>
<L>The Fate of Princes and of States,</L>
<L>I'th' Stars could plainly &s;ee;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet &s;o ob&s;curely liv'd, he &s;carce</L>
<L>Was to his Neighbours known,</L>
<L>But by the lying bills which he</L>
<L>Still &s;catter'd up and down,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And fixt on every pi&s;&s;ing po&s;t</L>
<L>Boa&s;ting at large, he will</L>
<L>Re&s;olve the harde&s;t Que&s;tions, by</L>
<L>His learning and his skill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One cries, pray Sir, will my dear Friend</L>
<L>Continue true to me?</L>
<L>And when you do believe, that he</L>
<L>And I &s;hall married be?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Another &s;ays, I now could &s;oon</L>
<L>A &s;econd Husband have,</L>
<L>Pray &s;ir, is he that run away</L>
<L>Alive, or in his Grave?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A third complains, I lately have</L>
<L>Been rob'd by a vile Thief,</L>
<L><PB N="124" REF="66">Pray &s;ir, inform me, how I may</L>
<L>In this ca&s;e find relief.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And thus poor &s;illy wretches were</L>
<L>Abu&s;ed by this Cheat,</L>
<L>Who of their money and their hopes,</L>
<L>At once doth them defeat:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length the Fool grows confident,</L>
<L>And doth abroad declare,</L>
<L>That by the Moons Eclip&s;e, he will</L>
<L>Make wonders to appear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The people met to hear what this</L>
<L>Pretender had to &s;ay,</L>
<L>But as the Moon and Stars he did</L>
<L>Intentively &s;urvey,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Into a Pit of water he</L>
<L>Happen'd at length to fall,</L>
<L>And there was mi&s;erably drown'd,</L>
<L>E're he for help could call,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The people laught to think that he</L>
<L>Should know their de&s;tiny,</L>
<L>And yet was ignorant of his own,</L>
<L>Although &s;o very nigh.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>There's nothing new in this, but what</L>
<L>We oft have heard before,</L>
<L>That old <HI>Will. Lilly</HI> could not tell,</L>
<L>Who 'twas perfum'd his door.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="32" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="125" REF="66">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a captain and his sons with some puppies</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Captain</HI> and <HI>Puppies.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Countrey Captain, who had more money than wit, and more honour than cou|rage, having divers Sons, it happened that a Bitch in the hou&s;e brought forth &s;everal Pup|pies, and the Captain equally di&s;tributing to every one a Whelp; it &s;eems, the Elde&s;t Son would have his call'd Captain; the Boys being ambitious of their Fathers Title, began to quar|rel, each alledging that his Puppy &s;hould be the Captain: This Controver&s;ie at length grew &s;o high, that the Lads were ready to fight with one another; &s;o that the Father was forc't to
<PB N="126" REF="67"> come and quiet them; and under&s;tanding the occa&s;ion of the di&s;turbance; You are a compa|ny of idle Boys, quoth he, to vex one another about &s;o ridiculous a matter as this is: Well, I'le &s;oon end this bu&s;ine&s;s; and for preventing any difference for the future, I am re&s;olved that henceforth every one of the Puppies &s;hall be a Captain, &s;o that you &s;hall never have occa&s;ion to teize one another hereafter: The Boys were very well &s;atisfied with this di&s;creet determination of the Father, &s;ince hereby eve|ry Lad had a Captain and a Puppy of his own both at once.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>How many idle and ridiculous quar|rels are there in the World about Titles and Pre|heminence of Place or Office? and how many weak men appear extreamly ambitious of Ho|nour and Dignity, and are mightily plea&s;ed when they attain thereto, although as uncapable and as little de&s;erving it as the Boys Puppy-Dogs merited to be made Captains? Whereas a generous and gallant &s;pirited per&s;on is &s;en&s;ible of the vanity of empty Names and Titles without &s;uitable Qualifications, and is &s;o far from pur|&s;uing Honours and Preferments, that he is often courted and entreated to accept of them by tho&s;e who do really under&s;tand what value is to be put upon the conduct and prudence of men of true worth and courage.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="127" REF="67">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXII.</HI> The <HI>Captain</HI> and <HI>Puppies.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Countrey Captain, who to be</L>
<L>Thought great did much de&s;ire,</L>
<L>And for his Wealth and Office, did</L>
<L>Greatly him&s;elf admire,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had &s;everal Sons, and happening</L>
<L>One time &s;ome Whelps to have,</L>
<L>He did di&s;tribute them, and to</L>
<L>Each Son a Puppy gave,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Elde&s;t being his Fathers Heir,</L>
<L>His Whelp would Captain call,</L>
<L>Which did di&s;turbance cau&s;e, and mad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Them quarrel, fight and brawl.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One Boy cries, Captain is my Dog,</L>
<L>No quoth the other, he</L>
<L>Shall not be called by that name,</L>
<L>My Whelp &s;hall Captain be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A third &s;ays, mine the prettie&s;t is,</L>
<L>And Captain is his name,</L>
<L>This makes the Father angry, who</L>
<L>Cries he'l decide the &s;ame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What idle Boys are you, quoth he,</L>
<L>To make a noi&s;e for nought,</L>
<L><PB N="128" REF="68">Since this great controver&s;ie, may</L>
<L>Soon to an end be brought,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For this my re&s;olution is,</L>
<L>Each Whelp I do intend</L>
<L>Shall be a Captain, that you may</L>
<L>No longer thus contend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This pleas'd the Boys, that each &s;hould have</L>
<L>A Captain of his own,</L>
<L>So every Lad a Puppy had</L>
<L>And Captain, both in one.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>How many idle quarrels and</L>
<L>Contentions, have we &s;een</L>
<L>About preheminence, and what</L>
<L>Great mi&s;chiefs have there been</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Occa&s;ion'd, by tho&s;e who to gain</L>
<L>Great places to k much care,</L>
<L>Though as unfit to manage them,</L>
<L>As the Boys Puppies were,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereas a well de&s;erving man,</L>
<L>The vanity doth &s;ee,</L>
<L>Of empty Names and Titles; if</L>
<L>True merit wanting be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Neither doth he preferments nor</L>
<L>Great Offices pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>But is content till to his worth,</L>
<L>Others &s;hall think them due.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="33" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="129" REF="68">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>two beds, both occupied, and some servants</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXXIII.</HI> The <HI>Flea</HI> and <HI>Gout.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Gout and the Flea travelling toge|ther, ther, came to a Town, where it was concluded between them, that the Gout &s;hould go and lodge in a Poor man's hou&s;e, and the Flea in a Noble-man's Pallace, and the next morning they were to meet again, and give an account how they liked their entertainment: accordingly the Gout went and &s;eized upon the Poor man's Toe, expecting to re&s;t quietly there, but to his a&s;toni&s;hment, the man &s;tarted &s;tarted up, ran about with his naked feet, and plunged him&s;elf into a Pond, and had almo&s;t choaked or drowned the Gout; and the Flea fa&s;tening upon the Noble-man's arm, thinking
<PB N="130" REF="69"> he had been fa&s;t a&s;leep, who &s;oon awaked, and calling for a Candle, ordered his Servants to &s;earch diligently for the villanous Flea that had bit him, &s;o that had he not been very nimble, he could not po&s;&s;ibly have e&s;caped with life: Next morning the two Travellers met again, but in a mo&s;t deplorable condition; the Gout looked as if he were half drowned, and the Flea like one frightned out of his wits; therefore they next night re&s;olved to change their Quarters; whereupon the Gout took po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Noble-man's Foot, and was pre&s;ently entertain|ed with honourable attendance, comforted with Plai&s;ters, covered with Scarlet and Flannel, laid upon Down-Beds and Cu&s;hions, and fed with the choice&s;t Meats and Wines; and the Flea, when the Poor man was in Bed, pre&s;ently fell a biting and &s;ucking his Belly-full, who &s;lept and &s;nored &s;o &s;oundly, as not ea&s;ily to be awak|ed, neither took any care to catch him, but left him &s;afe in the Blankets till night again; &s;o the&s;e two Friends meeting next morning, congratulated each others happine&s;s, and re&s;ol|ved for the future to remain in the &s;ame &s;ta|tion; the Gout continuing with the Rich man, and the Flea with the Poor.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Many times the Poor man &s;leeps quietly, and at ea&s;e, while the Great lie roaring with the pains and di&s;tem|pers occa&s;ioned by their voluptuou&s;ne&s;s and plenty.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="131" REF="69">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXIII.</HI> The <HI>Flea</HI> and <HI>Gout.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Gout and Flea together met,</L>
<L>And jointly did agree,</L>
<L>They Friends and Fellow Travellers</L>
<L>Would to the next Town be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Arriving they their lodgings take,</L>
<L>Concluding that next day</L>
<L>They would each other &s;ee, and tell</L>
<L>How quietly they lay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Accordingly the Gout unto</L>
<L>A poor mans hou&s;e doth go,</L>
<L>And finding him in bed, he takes</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Toe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The man who never yet had felt</L>
<L>Such cruel pain before,</L>
<L>Out of his bed leaps in a rage,</L>
<L>And running out of door,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He throws him&s;elf into a Pond</L>
<L>In hope relief to gain,</L>
<L>And almo&s;t drown'd the Gout, &s;ome &s;mall</L>
<L>Remi&s;&s;ion to obtain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Flea goes to the rich mans bed,</L>
<L>And thinking him a&s;leep,</L>
<L><PB N="132" REF="70">With mighty care and caution he</L>
<L>Into the &s;ame doth creep.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But had no &s;ooner bit his arm</L>
<L>His &s;upper thence to take,</L>
<L>E're the rich man &s;tarts up, and bids</L>
<L>His Servants they &s;hould make</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Strict &s;earch about the bed, to find</L>
<L>And Kill that villanous Flea,</L>
<L>Who had &s;he not been nimble, ne're</L>
<L>With life had got away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next day they meet, and of their fate</L>
<L>Both wofully complain,</L>
<L>And change their Quarters, that they may</L>
<L>A &s;ettlement obtain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Gout then to the Rich man goes,</L>
<L>And on his foot doth &s;eize,</L>
<L>Wherewith much care he treated is</L>
<L>And always lies at ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Flea goes to the poor mans hou&s;e,</L>
<L>Who &s;leeping without care,</L>
<L>He &s;ucks his belly full, and him</L>
<L>To wake need never fear.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>The man that's poor and temperate</L>
<L>Sleeps without pain or grief,</L>
<L>When rich men roar in Mi&s;ery</L>
<L>And cannot find relief.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="34" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="133" REF="70">
<HEAD><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>various animals in the foreground, and some people in the background</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> <HI>FAB. XXXIV.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN Ape meeting a Fox well clothed with hair and a large tail; ah, how happy are you, quoth he, to be &s;o hand&s;omely adorn|ed? Whereas I for want of a tail and hair am almo&s;t naked and very deformed to my great trouble and vexation; the wi&s;e Fox to convince her of her mi&s;take, de&s;ired her to walk with him; truly quoth the Ape, I am almo&s;t a&s;hamed to be &s;een in your company in this rag|ged condition, when you are &s;o well clad, how|ever I will wait on you; going together they met an Elephant that had lo&s;t his Teeth; bro+ther, quoth the Fox, what mighty force wa that which could break your Teeth? It wa
<PB N="134" REF="71"> mens covetou&s;ne&s;s, quoth he, who furiou&s;ly pur|&s;uing me, I broke them off between two Trees for them to take up, and thereby ran&s;omed my life; travelling on, they &s;aw a Beaver bleed|ing that had lo&s;t his Te&s;ticles; the Fox inqui|ring about his misfortune, under&s;tood he bit them off him&s;elf, being &s;en&s;ible that it was for them men &s;ought his de&s;truction; a little fur|ther they ob&s;erved a Peacock &s;tript of his Wings and Tail, &s;o as hardly to be known; The Fox pitying him; They were men, quoth the Peacock, who being plea&s;ed with my glorious Plumes, plundred and left me in this woful condition, to promote their own Pride and Vanity; walking on they found a Vulture who&s;e brea&s;t was all raw and the skin torn off; &s;ure &s;ays the Fox, you have met with very barbarous u&s;age of late; it was from men, quoth he, who de&s;irous of the Down on my brea&s;t, catcht me deceitfully, and abu&s;ed me as you &s;ee; &s;carce were they parted from the Vul|ture, but they met a man with &s;everal little bundles, his Wife and Children in rags following him; whence come you pray with this Troop, quoth the Fox, I come, wretch that I am, &s;ays he, from a Conquered City where I was but ye&s;terday, rich and abounding in all things, be the Enemy having ruined the Town, this is all I have left, being reduced to the extremity you &s;ee; the Fox turning to the Ape, &s;ee now brother, &s;ays he, what little happine&s;s there is in the be&s;t things of this World; whereas thy deformity &s;ecures thee, that thou neede&s;t not fear being robb'd of any thing, but maye&s;t live as happy as thou wilt.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>The greate&s;t beauties have oftentimes the greate&s;t misfortunes, and it is oft &s;een, that the deformed live more hap|py lives, than tho&s;e of more admired accompli&s;hments.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="135" REF="71">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXIV.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Ape the Fox doth meet, and cries,</L>
<L>You are well cloath'd with hair,</L>
<L>Whereas for want thereof, I am</L>
<L>Naked almo&s;t and bare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which to my grief doth make me &s;o</L>
<L>Deformed as you &s;ee.</L>
<L>Reynard &s;ays, Pray don't grieve your &s;elf</L>
<L>But walk along with me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Pa&s;&s;ing along they chanc't to meet</L>
<L>An Elephant by the way,</L>
<L>With both his Teeth out, unto whom</L>
<L>The Fox cries, Brother pray,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By what &s;trange fortune have you lo&s;t</L>
<L>Your Teeth? It was to &s;ave</L>
<L>My life, quoth he, which men did &s;eek</L>
<L>That they my Teeth might have.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next they a Beaver met who had</L>
<L>Him&s;elf an Eunuch made,</L>
<L>And by lo&s;s of his Te&s;ticles</L>
<L>To &s;ave his life was glad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI> Peacock then comes in their way,</L>
<L>Who &s;trives him&s;elf to hide,</L>
<L><PB N="136" REF="72">A&s;ham'd that men had robb'd him of</L>
<L>His Feathers for his pride.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI> Vulture then they met, who&s;e brea&s;t</L>
<L>Was mi&s;erably rent,</L>
<L>Crying, men for my Down did me</L>
<L>This wrong and detriment.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length a man approaches them</L>
<L>Who wretched did appear,</L>
<L>And &s;everal bundles of &s;mall worth</L>
<L>Upon his back did bear,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Wife and Children follow'd him</L>
<L>In a mo&s;t &s;ad e&s;tate.</L>
<L>The Fox cries Brother, your ill fate</L>
<L>Be plea&s;ed to relate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I from a City came, quoth he,</L>
<L>Where I was rich and high</L>
<L>But ye&s;terday; now ruin'd by</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> potent Enemy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox turns to the Ape and cries,</L>
<L>Brother you here may &s;ee</L>
<L>Your happine&s;s, &s;ince none will rob</L>
<L>You of Deformity.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>They that have any Excellence</L>
<L>In danger often are,</L>
<L>Whereas tho&s;e in a mean e&s;tate,</L>
<L>Are happier by far.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="35" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="93" REF="72">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXV.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man with one bird at his feet and two others in cages on either side of him</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Lapwing</HI> and <HI>Parrot.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Lapwing having ob&s;erved a Parrot to hang in a fine gilded Cage in the Kings Pallace, and that his meat was provided for him without any pains or care, he began to be a little envious, and coming up to the Par|rot; I admire, &s;ays he, at your good fortune, that you are &s;o much honoured, whereas I am very well &s;atisfied that my Feathers are as beau|tiful as yours, and that my voice is altogether as plea&s;ant, and for honour and dignity, I do a&s;|&s;ure you, I account my &s;elf much your &s;uperior, who &s;eem to be born to dominion, &s;ince Nature
<PB N="140" REF="73"> has put a Crown on my head, well, I am re&s;olv'd I will go the King and offer him my &s;ervice, and doubt not of acceptance; accordingly he goes and pre&s;ents him&s;elf to the King, and is admit|ted into Court, where he his put into a new Gol|den Cage, and wantoned in ea&s;e and luxury, being fed every day with meat from the Kings own Table; the Lapwing at fir&s;t thought his condition altered much for the better, &s;ince he was now put to no trouble to &s;eek for his living faring gallantly every day; but though new things may &s;eem delightful for the pre&s;ent, yet at length he began to con&s;ider, that for enjoy|ing a little Luxury and Plea&s;ure, he had forfeit|ed what was of a thou&s;and times more value, namely his Liberty, being now confined to the narrow limits of a &s;mall Cage, and made a Pri&s;oner for life, who formerly u&s;ed to range through the Woods and Forre&s;ts without any controul. The&s;e reflections had &s;o great an in|fluence upon him, that they threw him into a deep Con&s;umption, and &s;oon after he broke his heart and died for grief.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Liberty is an invaluable Jewel, and for which we ought to count nothing too dear, nor to murmur at the be&s;t of Princes, though for our own &s;ecurity and pre&s;ervation, we are at &s;ome ex|traordinary charge to pre&s;erve our &s;elves from Ty|ranny and Slavery.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="141" REF="73">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXV.</HI> The <HI>Lapwing</HI> and <HI>Parrot.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Lapwing coming to the Court,</L>
<L>A Parrot did perceive</L>
<L>In a Gilt Cage, and at his own</L>
<L>Misfortune &s;eem'd to grieve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth he, I marvel how this Bird</L>
<L>Such honour &s;hould obtain,</L>
<L>To live in &s;o much &s;tate, and feed</L>
<L>Without all care and pain,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When though my Plumes are fairer, and</L>
<L>I &s;ing as well as he,</L>
<L>Yet I ne're could arrive unto</L>
<L>So great felicity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well, I unto the King will go</L>
<L>And tell him, if he plea&s;e</L>
<L>I'le be his Servant; and then hope</L>
<L>That I &s;hall live at ea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He goes, the King accepts him, and</L>
<L>Commands that they &s;hould make</L>
<L>A Golden Cage, wherein he's put</L>
<L>And daily doth partake</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of all the Dainties of the Court,</L>
<L>Which were at his command,</L>
<L><PB N="142" REF="74">Yea often, doth receive his meat,</L>
<L>Ev'n from the Kings own hand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus revelling in all delights,</L>
<L>He judg'd him&s;elf to be</L>
<L>The happie&s;t of the feather'd race,</L>
<L>And from all trouble free.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length when he began to think</L>
<L>That he was now confin'd,</L>
<L>Within the limits of his Cage,</L>
<L>It much di&s;turb'd his mind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis true quoth he, in riot I</L>
<L>Do live, and Luxury,</L>
<L>But mi&s;erable wretch, thereby</L>
<L>I lo&s;e my liberty.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now a Pri&s;oner am for life,</L>
<L>And ne're &s;hall &s;ee the Grove</L>
<L>And Forre&s;t where with much delight,</L>
<L>I freely u&s;e to rove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This thought &s;eiz'd on his heart, and made</L>
<L>Him &s;o un&s;atisfy'd,</L>
<L>That with meer grief and &s;orrow, he</L>
<L>Soon pin'd away and died.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>It was the advice of the valiant <HI>Scot</HI> call'd</L>
<L><HI>William Wallace</HI> to his Son at his death.</L>
<L>Remember Son that Liberty</L>
<L>Is a mo&s;t happy thing,</L>
<L>Take heed that into &s;lavery</L>
<L>Thy &s;elf thou never bring.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="36" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="143" REF="74">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a fox in a well and a wolf peering over the side</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Fox in &s;eeking his prey, happened to come to a place where there was a Well that had two Buckets, into one of which he leapt, hoping to meet with &s;omething in it, but was no &s;ooner there, e're the Bucket &s;uddenly carried him down to the bottom, where he was in great danger of being murdered, &s;tarved or drown|ed; in this de&s;perate condition he made a &s;ad noi&s;e and howling, which a Wolf hard by hear|ing, came to the Wells mouth, and cried, who's below there? It is I dear Uncle, quoth the Fox,
<PB N="144" REF="75"> but why do you make &s;uch pitiful moan? &s;ays the Wolf, have you broke your Leg or hurt your &s;elf? Oh, no, quoth the Fox, the quite contrary, for having notice that at the bottom of this Well there was a very great quantity of Fi&s;h, I went down to fill my belly, where I have been fi&s;hing ever &s;ince, and have got &s;uch a multitude, and eaten &s;o heartily, that I think I &s;hall bur&s;t, &amp; yet there's enough left to &s;erve you and your young ones a month together, tho' you feed never &s;o heartily; I am glad of that, quoth the Wolf, but all the craft will lye in getting them up; Uncle, &s;ays the Fox, they are all in the Bucket with me, therefore do you but leap into the other Bucket that hangs above, and you will be with me in&s;tantly; the Wolf pre&s;ently leaps into the Bucket, and with his weight &s;oon brought up the Fox in the other, who in pa&s;|&s;ing by him cried out, good night Uncle, this is the fa&s;hion of the World, &s;ome go up, and &s;ome go down, and &s;o skipping out run away leaving the Wolf at the bottom of the Well, where he continued till &s;ome Shepherds coming for water drew him up, and finding what he was, fell upon him with Clubs and Staves, &s;o that he hardly e&s;|caped with his life.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>It is very difficult to avoid being deceived and abu|&s;ed by tho&s;e, who are naturally of a treacherous temper; and Covetou&s;ne&s;s often brings men into great peril and danger as it did the Wolf, who was de&s;irous of getting a great deal of Fi&s;h.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="145" REF="75">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVI.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Fox in &s;eeking of his prey</L>
<L>Unto a Well he came,</L>
<L>And found two Buckets on one Rope,</L>
<L>Belonging to the &s;ame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And into that above, him&s;elf</L>
<L>In hope of food he throws,</L>
<L>But was no &s;ooner in e're down</L>
<L>He to the bottom goes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>From whence how he might make e&s;cape</L>
<L>No likelyhood he found,</L>
<L>But there mu&s;t either &s;tarved be,</L>
<L>Or murthered, or drown'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Wolf at length came by, and heard</L>
<L>His lamentable cry,</L>
<L>And to a&s;&s;i&s;t him to the Well</L>
<L>Approached &s;peedily.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who's there? quoth <HI>I&s;grim;</HI> it is I,</L>
<L>Says <HI>Reynard,</HI> who heard tell</L>
<L>That I a multitude of Fi&s;h</L>
<L>Should get within this Well.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which I found true, and eat &s;o much</L>
<L>I am in grievous pain,</L>
<L><PB N="146" REF="76">The Wolf cries, That is brave, but how</L>
<L>Shall I &s;ome Fi&s;h obtain?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Uncle, quoth he, that ea&s;ie is,</L>
<L>For if you do but get</L>
<L>Into the Bucket hangs above,</L>
<L>You need not want for meat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Wolf believ'd him, but he was</L>
<L>No &s;ooner got within</L>
<L>E're he &s;unk to the bottom, and</L>
<L><HI>Reynard</HI> came up again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And leaping out, he laught for joy,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, the World goes &s;o,</L>
<L>Dear Uncle, that when one does ri&s;e,</L>
<L>Another falls as low.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length &s;ome Shepherds thither came</L>
<L>Water to draw, and found</L>
<L>They had brought up the Wolf, on whom</L>
<L>They fa&s;ten many a wound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t the &s;ly Fox at di&s;tance &s;ees</L>
<L>His Uncles mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>And &s;miles to think how he e&s;capt</L>
<L>The like calamity.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e who by nature treacherous are,</L>
<L>Should never tru&s;ted be,</L>
<L>For they perfidious will prove</L>
<L>If in extremity.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="37" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="147" REF="76">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a shepherd playing the bagpipes approached by a wolf and a fox</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Shepherd, Wolf</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<P>A Shepherd who u&s;ually diverted him&s;elf while his flocks were feeding, with play|ing on the Bagpipe, happened one day to &s;ee a Creature appear at a great di&s;tance, which &s;eemed to dance to the tune of his Pipe; next day he took notice he did the &s;ame, which while he was ob&s;erving, he perceives a Fox approaching him with a &s;miling countenance, who told him that he came with a Me&s;&s;age, which he doubted not would be very acceptable, namely, to propo&s;e terms of friend&s;hip and accommodation between
<PB N="148" REF="77"> the Wolves and the Sheep, being &s;ent by the Wolf who did much condemn the cruelty of his Parents and Kindred that were &s;o bloudy to the poor innocent harmle&s;s Sheep; whereas he is re&s;olved to live peaceably and neighbourly with them, without the lea&s;t di&s;turbance, e&s;pe|cially if you would plea&s;e to teach him to play upon the Bagpipe, wherewith he is &s;o much delighted, that when ever you &s;trike up he cannot forbear dancing, and therefore would willingly keep company with you and your &s;weet Lambs, that he might be partaker of that plea&s;ant diver&s;ion; the Shepherd who knew the &s;trict League of Rapine and Robbery between them, replies, well, though I much &s;u&s;pect the Amba&s;&s;ador, yet I &s;hould be glad of a la&s;t|ing peace, whereby I &s;hall &s;ave many a fat Sheep and Lamb, therefore upon condition he will permit me to pluck out his Teeth and cut cut off his Nails, I am willing he &s;hould come and conver&s;e with the Flocks, and dance with them to my Mu&s;ick, becau&s;e he will have no occa&s;ion for tho&s;e offen&s;ive Weapons, while he is in &s;uch hone&s;t company as we are. The Fox finding him&s;elf outwitted in his own Politicks, &s;neakt away a&s;hamed, without any further reply.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>A mans hone&s;ty and integrity may be very much di&s;co|vered by the company he keeps and the Per&s;ons he imploys; nei|ther &s;hould we tru&s;t an Enemy till he is di&s;armed of the Wea|pons, wherewith he u&s;es to do mi&s;chief.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="149" REF="77">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVII.</HI> The <HI>Shepherd, Wolf</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Shepherd to divert him&s;elf</L>
<L>Did on his Bagpipe play,</L>
<L>VVhil&s;t his poor Sheep and Lambs for food</L>
<L>About the Fields do &s;tray:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And at a di&s;tance, to his tunes</L>
<L>A dancing Bea&s;t doth &s;ee,</L>
<L>But &s;o far off he could not gue&s;s</L>
<L>VVhat creature it &s;hould be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now while the Shepherd this odd &s;ight</L>
<L>Intentively did view,</L>
<L>The Fox comes toward him, and cries,</L>
<L>News Sir I bring to you,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVhich I &s;uppo&s;e will welcome be,</L>
<L>VVho from the VVolf am &s;ent,</L>
<L>To tell you that to make a peace</L>
<L>VVith you he's fully bent;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And the ill u&s;age of his Friend;</L>
<L>And Parents doth condemn,</L>
<L>Towards the harmle&s;s Sheep and Lambs,</L>
<L>VVho never injur'd them.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the future does oblige</L>
<L>And bind him&s;elf, that he</L>
<L><PB N="150" REF="78">VVill come and dance with them, and live</L>
<L>In love and amity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>VVho with your Pipe is &s;o much pleas'd</L>
<L>That when thereon you play,</L>
<L>He to your plea&s;ant mu&s;ick falls</L>
<L>To dance without delay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Shepherd who well under&s;tood</L>
<L>The clo&s;e affinity</L>
<L>Between the VVolf and Fox, who liv'd</L>
<L>By Theft and Robbery,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Replies, I &s;hould be very glad</L>
<L>A la&s;ting Peace were made,</L>
<L>And that the VVolf my innocent Flocks</L>
<L>VVould not henceforth invade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet I can hardly credit him,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s he let me take</L>
<L>Away his Teeth and Nails, of which</L>
<L>He little u&s;e can make</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In dancing, or in conver&s;e with</L>
<L>My Sheep. The Fox then &s;aw</L>
<L>He was outwitted, and for &s;hame</L>
<L>Did pre&s;ently withdraw.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>By his companions a Man</L>
<L>May be&s;t di&s;cover'd be,</L>
<L>Nor will a Wi&s;e Man ever tru&s;t</L>
<L>An armed Enemy.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="38" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="151" REF="78">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVIII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>an ape working as a carpenter, and a man watching it</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Ape</HI> turn'd <HI>Carpenter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN unlucky Ape &s;itting over again&s;t a Car|penters Yard, took much notice how he wrought, &amp; was mighty de&s;irous to imitate him, di&s;cour&s;ing thus with him&s;elf; certainly I could ea&s;ily be Ma&s;ter of this Trade without &s;even years &s;lavery to learn it, as no doubt this dull Fellow hath had; for I am of opinion that it is only for want of practice, or el&s;e we Apes could &s;oon out do men in all Acts and Sciences; and I remember a notable King in <HI>India</HI> hav|ing taken &s;everal of my elder Brethren, called Ba|boons,
<PB N="152" REF="79"> Pri&s;oners, he was re&s;olved to put them to Plow and Sow, and to make Souldiers of them, alledging that they would not &s;peak, becau&s;e they were Idle and unwilling to work; well, I have a great inclination to try my skill, but hope I &s;hall have better fortune than a Nephew of mine, who living in an hou&s;e over again&s;t a Cobler, and often ob&s;erving how he cut his Leather to peices to Soal the Shoes, when the Cobler was ab&s;ent, he leaps into his Stall and &s;trives to imitate him, who returning and finding his Leather all mangled and &s;poil'd, re|&s;olved to be revenged; &amp; one day when he &s;aw my Co&s;en Pug look earne&s;tly at him, he took up his &s;harp cutting Knife, and drew it over his Throat divers time, and then going away, my &s;illy kin&s;man skipt in&s;tantly into his Shop, and taking the Knife, thinking to do the &s;ame, he cut his own Throat therewith and died; but I'le take more care; and &s;o getting into the Carpenters Yard he began to handle his Tools, and to &s;plit Wood therewith, but on a &s;udden his foot was catcht in a cleft peice of Board, and held there &s;o fa&s;t that he could not &s;tir, but crying out, the Carpenter came, and perceiv|ing his folly, with many &s;coffs and blows di&s;mi&s;t him. This comes of it, quoth the Ape, to be over conceited of our own wit, but I now find it is not &s;o ea&s;ie to be a workman as I at fir&s;t &s;ight did imagine.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Some per&s;ons have &s;o great an opinion of their own ingenuity, as to imagine they can &s;oon attain to the mo&s;t curious inve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="4 letters">s, but upon tryal, there appears more difficulty and danger than they could po&s;&s;ibly fore&s;ee.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="153" REF="79">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXVIII.</HI> The <HI>Ape</HI> turn'd <HI>Carpenter.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A wanton Ape who o're again&s;t</L>
<L>A Carpenter did &s;it,</L>
<L>Ob&s;erved how he wrought, and was</L>
<L>Extreamly pleas'd with it,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And did re&s;olve to try if he</L>
<L>Could not perform the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Quoth he, &s;ure this dull fellow is</L>
<L>Not wi&s;er than I am.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For I believe it is for want</L>
<L>Of u&s;e, el&s;e Apes would be</L>
<L>As apt, and knowing as men are</L>
<L>In every my&s;tery.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For a great Indian King who &s;ome</L>
<L>Baboons had Pri&s;oners made,</L>
<L>Believ'd them men, and did re&s;olve</L>
<L>They &s;hould be taught &s;ome Trade.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alledging he was &s;ure that they</L>
<L>Could &s;peak as well as he,</L>
<L>But 'cau&s;e they would not work were dumb</L>
<L>Out of meer policy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well, I intend to try, but hope</L>
<L>I better luck &s;hall have</L>
<L><PB N="154" REF="80">Than one of our fraternity;</L>
<L>Who like an idle Knave,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Re&s;olv'd to learn the Coblers trade</L>
<L>But did his Leather &s;poil,</L>
<L>Which to revenge the man, poor Pug</L>
<L>Did fatally beguile.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who &s;triving him to imitate</L>
<L>In handling of his Knife,</L>
<L>Cut his own Throat, and thereby was</L>
<L>Trepan'd out of his life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ape then leaps into the &s;hop,</L>
<L>And &s;trives to u&s;e the Tools</L>
<L>As he had &s;een the Carpenter,</L>
<L>And imitate his rules.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But as in &s;plitting of a board</L>
<L>He with much labour wrought,</L>
<L>For want of skill to manage it</L>
<L>His foot therein was caught.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The man thus takes him, and with &s;coff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>And blows doth him di&s;mi&s;s,</L>
<L>And Pug finds that a Carpenter</L>
<L>To be not ea&s;ie is.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e that are curious oftentimes</L>
<L>Much damage reap thereby,</L>
<L>And many things may ea&s;ie &s;eem</L>
<L>Untill we come to try.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="39" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="155" REF="80">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXIX.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a panther attacked and then pursuing some cattle</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Panther</HI> and <HI>Pea&s;ants.</HI></HEAD>
<P>CErtain rude Countrey Pea&s;ants happening to find a Panther in a Pit, into which he had accidently fallen, they with much malice and fury fell upon the poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Creature, whom they knew to have long frequented the neighbouring Fields, and yet had never offered them the lea&s;t wrong nor injury; however they with Clubs, Staves and Stones endeavoured to de&s;troy him in the bottom of the Pit, &amp; then left him, expecting to find him dead the next morn|ing; but &s;everal charitable Shepherds happen|ing
<PB N="156" REF="81"> to come by &s;oon after, they took pity up|on him, and finding him yet alive, though very dangerou&s;ly wounded and bruis'd, they gave him meat, and u&s;ed all means po&s;&s;ible for his recovery; by this relief, his Spirits began a little to revive, and making a brisk attempt he happily leapt out of the Pit, and with a great deal of rejoicing, made ha&s;t to his own dwelling. In proce&s;s of time, he regained the u&s;e of his Limbs, and his former vigour, and then marching with much fury into the Forre&s;t, made horrible &s;laughter among the Cattle of tho&s;e &s;urly Boors, who had &s;o villanou&s;ly abu|&s;ed him, in revenge of their cruelty and ingra|titude; &s;o that the people trembled for fear of him, yea tho&s;e that had been compa&s;&s;ionate to him, much doubted the lo&s;s of their Flocks, nay, were afraid they &s;hould hardly e&s;cape with their Lives; which the Panther perceiv|ing, fear nothing my friends, quoth he, I will not do you the lea&s;t damage, who only de&s;ign to make tho&s;e wretches that u&s;ed me &s;o barba|rou&s;ly &s;en&s;ible of their ba&s;ene&s;s toward me in di&s;tre&s;s, who lived peaceably among them, and always treated them as Friends; for I can ea&s;ily di&s;tingui&s;h between tho&s;e who gave me bread, and others that gave me blows.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>It is very inhumane to be &s;evere toward tho&s;e that are in di&s;tre&s;s; neither doth charity toward the mi&s;erable &s;eldom mi&s;s of a &s;uitable reward.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="157" REF="81">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XXXIX.</HI> The <HI>Panther</HI> and <HI>Pea&s;ants.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>A Panther while he wandered</L>
<L>For food the Feilds around,</L>
<L>Happen'd to fall into a Pit,</L>
<L>Where he was quickly found</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>By &s;ome rude Countrey Boors, whom he</L>
<L>Intreats to help him out,</L>
<L>But like ill natur'd Clowns, they all</L>
<L>Compa&s;s the Pit about,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then with Clubs they him a&s;&s;ault,</L>
<L>And ma&s;&s;y Stones do throw,</L>
<L>Re&s;olving that from thence with life</L>
<L>He ne'er again &s;hall go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus is he cruelly abus'd</L>
<L>Till they were wearied,</L>
<L>And then retire, concluding they</L>
<L>Next day &s;hould find him dead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But &s;ome good natur'd Shepherds, who</L>
<L>Came thither the next day,</L>
<L>Finding life yet remain in him,</L>
<L>They carefully convey</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The poor Bea&s;t thence, who with all &s;peed</L>
<L>Retires into his Den,</L>
<L><PB N="158" REF="82">Where he lay long before he could</L>
<L>Regain his health again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length he did recover, and</L>
<L>Then furiou&s;ly doth run</L>
<L>About the Fields, which made the Clowns</L>
<L>Cry out, they were undone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For he their Cows, their Sheep, and Lambs,</L>
<L>Doth mi&s;erably rend</L>
<L>Without controul, &s;ince none of them</L>
<L>Dur&s;t with him to contend.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yea tho&s;e that did relieve him, were</L>
<L>Struck with a pannick fear,</L>
<L>But unto them, the Panther cries,</L>
<L>My freinds, I yours will &s;pare,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And only will revenge my &s;elf</L>
<L>On tho&s;e ba&s;e villains, who</L>
<L>I never wrong'd, and yet to me</L>
<L>Such cruelty did &s;how.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For I'le near &s;o ingrateful be</L>
<L>Not to di&s;tingui&s;h tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Who helpt me in my great di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>From them that gave me blows.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>We ought not to in&s;ult o're tho&s;e</L>
<L>That are in mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>But aid them, and &s;o reap that gain</L>
<L>Which follows charity.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="40" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="159" REF="82">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XL.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>a man holding a sword over a bear, watched by a wolf</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Wolf and the Bear travelling through the Forre&s;t, the Wolf asked the Bear why he always held down his head toward the ground, I cannot well tell the rea&s;on of it, &s;ays he, but I &s;uppo&s;e it proceeds from the &s;tiffne&s;s of my neck; why then do not you get Horns to your Head? quoth the Wolf, as Bulls, and Stags, and Rams, and other Creatures are armed with; whereby you may defend your &s;elf again&s;t your Enemies, and they will like|wi&s;e be a great ornament to your forehead? I
<PB N="160" REF="83"> would have Horns with all my heart, &s;ays the Bear, but &s;ince nature has not been &s;o kind to be&s;tow any upon me, I am afraid it will be ve|ry hard to procure them, why, &s;ays the Wolf, I believe it may be done, if you will but apply your &s;elf to a Man, for they are &s;o ingenious that nothing almo&s;t is too hard for them to con|trive. The &s;illy Bear did as he coun&s;elled him, and at length he met with a Man who under|took the bu&s;ine&s;s, but fir&s;t he demanded what he would expect for a reward? I can &s;ee no|thing quoth the Workman, that is of any va|lue about you, except your cropt ears; take them freely, cries the Bear, for a gallant pair of Horns will become me much better than they, and &s;o &s;uffered his Ears to be cut off with much torture; now, &s;ays the Operator, I mu&s;t boar two holes in your Head, that they may be &s;trongly fa&s;tened into your thick Skull; What do you think I am mad, quoth the Bear, to have holes made in my Head, &s;ure you intend to murder me; it is impo&s;&s;ible to be done other|wi&s;e, &s;ays the Surgeon; well then, quoth the Bear in a rage, though I have been &s;uch a block|head to lo&s;e my Ears, yet I had rather want Horns than lo&s;e my Life; and &s;o went away very much di&s;contented.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Tho&s;e dull in&s;ipid Fools, who are ambitious of being great and famous without de&s;ert, are often impo&s;ed upon by others, and many times &s;uffer much damage and danger thereby.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="161" REF="83">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XL.</HI> The <HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>ONE time it happen'd as the Wolf</L>
<L>About the Forre&s;t went,</L>
<L>He met the Bear rowling along,</L>
<L>And askt him what he meant</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To hold his head &s;o neer the ground,</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Bruin,</HI> you mu&s;t know,</L>
<L>It is the &s;tiffne&s;s of my neck</L>
<L>That makes me bow &s;o low.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Methinks &s;ays <HI>I&s;grim,</HI> you your Head</L>
<L>Do dangerou&s;ly expo&s;e,</L>
<L>By that ill po&s;ture to the rage</L>
<L>And malice of your Foes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I wonder you don't Horns procure</L>
<L>As other Creatures have,</L>
<L>Which from innumerable wrongs</L>
<L>Not only you may &s;ave,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But likewi&s;e to your head will be</L>
<L>A Gallant ornament.</L>
<L>Sir, quoth the Bear, with Horns I could</L>
<L>Be very well content.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But am afraid &s;ince nature has</L>
<L>Deni'd them unto me,</L>
<L><PB N="162" REF="84">The purcha&s;e of them will a work</L>
<L>Of difficulty be.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It may be not, &s;ays <HI>I&s;grim,</HI> if</L>
<L>Your &s;elf your do apply</L>
<L>Unto a Man, for they are full</L>
<L>Of Ingenuity.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The &s;tupid Bear believing him,</L>
<L>Unto a Man doth go,</L>
<L>And whether he could fix on's head</L>
<L>A pair of Horns would know,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who tells him that he did believe</L>
<L>The bu&s;ine&s;s might be done,</L>
<L>But his reward de&s;ir'd to know,</L>
<L>E're he the work begun.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What ever you demand i'le give,</L>
<L>Replies the joyful Bear,</L>
<L>Then quoth the man, i'le have your ears,</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e them you be&s;t can &s;pare.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He cuts them off, then tells the Bear,</L>
<L>That he a hole mu&s;t bore</L>
<L>Into his Skull, to fix the Horns</L>
<L>Fa&s;t on his head before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay, quoth the Bear, though &s;uch a Sot</L>
<L>I was my Ears to loo&s;e,</L>
<L>Yet Horns to want than to be kill'd,</L>
<L>I will much rather chu&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;ordid fools who much de&s;ire</L>
<L>To be thought Great and High,</L>
<L>Are oft abus'd under pretence</L>
<L>Of Love and Amity.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="41" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="161" REF="84">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XLI.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>two men, a wolf and a fox</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Wolf, Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Wolf accu&s;ed the Fox that one day when he was abroad, Reynard came in|to his Den, and &s;tole from thence a large quar|ter of mutton, which he had left of a Sheep the night before, and re&s;erved for his Dinner. The Fox utterly denied the matter, with ma|ny prote&s;tations and imprecations; at length they concluded to bring the controver&s;ie before the Ape, and make him the Arbitrator and Judge between them; Being come, the Wolf pleaded, that the wicked thieving Fox there pre&s;ent, who was known to live by &s;poil and rapine, had feloniou&s;ly rob'd him of his provi|&s;ion
<PB N="162" REF="85"> in his ab&s;ence, and when he de&s;ired him to re&s;tore his &s;toln goods, he like an impudent Ra&s;cal for&s;wore it; and that it was not the fir&s;t time by twenty that he had &s;erved him, and many other Creatures in the &s;ame manner, he therefore hoped his Wor&s;hip would now do him ju&s;tice again&s;t this common Thief. The Fox replies, what this bloudy ravenous Wolf alledges again&s;t me is altogether fal&s;e, as well as very improbable, for fir&s;t he never &s;aw me near his hole, nor has he any witne&s;s to prove a word he &s;ays; and in the next place, he is &s;uch a devouring hungry villain, that he never leaves any thing over night again&s;t next day, but is continually lying in wait to murder the innocent, therefore I hope your wor&s;hip will clear me of this &s;candal, and puni&s;h this fal&s;e accu&s;er; well quoth the Ape, I find the old Proverb true, that <HI>Two of a Trade can never agree,</HI> and Thieves are &s;eldom hone&s;t to one another; I do not perceive the Wolf hath lo&s;t any thing, and yet I believe the Fox hath &s;toln &s;omewhat; let me therefore advi&s;e you to go home and live as peaceably as people of your Calling can do, but be &s;ure never to tru&s;t any farther than you can &s;ee one another.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Ill men are always jealous and &s;u&s;pi|cious of each other, and the</HI> Spaniard
<HI>&s;ays, he that is often &s;u&s;pected has &s;ome guilt.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="163" REF="85">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XLI.</HI> The <HI>Wolf, Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Wolf the Fox does charge, that he</L>
<L>Feloniou&s;ly had &s;tole</L>
<L>A quarter of a Sheep, which he</L>
<L>Had left within his hole.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Fox this &s;lander 'gain&s;t him, doth</L>
<L>With vehemence deny,</L>
<L>And boldly tells the Wolf it is</L>
<L>A Scandal and a Lye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length all quarrels to compo&s;e</L>
<L>They mutually agree,</L>
<L>That the wi&s;e Ape &s;hall in this ca&s;e</L>
<L>Their Arbitrator be;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Before whom like &s;ome Lawyers, they</L>
<L>Each other do abu&s;e,</L>
<L>And of great crimes and villanies</L>
<L>One t'other doth accu&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Quoth I&s;grim, this &s;ly thieving Fox</L>
<L>When I was out of door,</L>
<L>Rob'd me of all my Provender,</L>
<L>I had laid up in &s;tore;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay, to this wicked cour&s;e of life</L>
<L>He &s;o addicted is,</L>
<L><PB N="164" REF="86">He robs all other Creatures, and</L>
<L>To him nought comes ami&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Good Ju&s;tice Ape; quoth Reynard, pray</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve this cruel Thief</L>
<L>Who rails at robbery, and yet</L>
<L>Of Felons is the Chief.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And cries, I wrong'd him of his meat,</L>
<L>Yet cannot make't appear</L>
<L>By any evidence he has,</L>
<L>That ever I was there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;ides, 'tis known the Wolf is &s;o</L>
<L>Voracious by his kind,</L>
<L>'Tis very &s;trange that he &s;hould leave</L>
<L>Such &s;tore of fle&s;h behind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well, quoth the Ape, by this I find</L>
<L>The Proverb to be true,</L>
<L><HI>Two of a Trade can ne're agree,</HI></L>
<L>As now 'tis &s;een by you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore I would advi&s;e you both</L>
<L>To live as quietly</L>
<L>As may be; But &s;till to &s;u&s;pect</L>
<L>Each others hone&s;ty.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Ill men of their Companions have</L>
<L>A fear and jealou&s;ie,</L>
<L>And he that oft &s;u&s;pected is</L>
<L>Can &s;carce from guilt be free.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="42" TYPE="fable">
<DIV2 N="prose" TYPE="version">
<PB N="165" REF="86">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XLII.</HI>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>two foxes and a bear</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Bear.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Bea&s;ts of the Forre&s;t meeting toge|ther, had a &s;olemn con&s;ultation how they &s;hould free them&s;elves from the danger and &s;la|very whereinto many of them were oft brought by Men, who&s;e &s;trength was much inferior to theirs; The Fox alledged that men were &s;o &s;ubtil and politick, as it would be very diffi|cult to &s;ecure them&s;elves again&s;t their Wiles though they were much &s;tronger; this put the Bear into a great fury; who cried This is a good plea for &s;uch a Coward as Reynard is, when without doubt it is nothing but our want of courage, and our meanne&s;s of Spirit that gives
<PB N="166" REF="87"> men &s;uch advantage over us; for con&s;ider the Hor&s;e or the Elephant, whom twenty men were not able to manage if they were &s;en&s;ible of their own abilities, and yet the&s;e &s;uffer one Man, yea a Child to have dominion over them; therefore my advice is, that we &s;hould lay a&s;ide tho&s;e unnatural quarrels among our &s;elves, whereby we de&s;troy one another, and all una|nimou&s;ly unite again&s;t our common enemy Man; and then I do not Que&s;tion but we &s;hall pre&s;erve our Liberties, and bring them in &s;ub|jection to us; the Bear having roared out this couragious &s;peech, had few that &s;econded him, &s;ince it appeared impo&s;&s;ible to be effected to the generality there pre&s;ent, &s;o that the A&s;&s;embly broke up without concluding upon any thing; Soon after the Bear was catcht in a &s;nare, and had rings put into his No&s;e, being taught to dance, and was led about the &s;treets to get mo|ney for his Ma&s;ter; whom the Fox meeting, un|cle quoth he, I wonder how you come to be in this condition who talked &s;o big the other day; ah, quoth the Bear, Cuz, I find it is one thing to talk and another to do; and &s;o pa&s;t a|long very heavily in performing his daily drud|gery.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<P>Moral. <HI>Tho&s;e per&s;ons who are mo&s;t in&s;olent in pro&s;perity are commonly mo&s;t dejected in ad|ver&s;ity neither is the huffing of braging fellows to be minded or regarded.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="verse" TYPE="version">
<PB N="167" REF="87">
<HEAD><HI>FAB. XLII.</HI> The <HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Bear.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THE Bea&s;ts met in the Forre&s;t, to</L>
<L>Con&s;ult how they might free</L>
<L>Them&s;elves from Mans Dominion, who</L>
<L>kept them in &s;lavery,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Reynard alledg'd men cunning were</L>
<L>And full of &s;ubtilty,</L>
<L>And what in &s;trength they wanted, did</L>
<L>Supply with policy.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bear cries, Sirs, I hope that you</L>
<L>Will little notice take</L>
<L>Of what this Coward does alledge,</L>
<L>Or the Plea he doth make.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For if the Hor&s;e and Elephant</L>
<L>Their own &s;trength did but know,</L>
<L>We quickly &s;hould the Wit of Man</L>
<L>By valour overthrow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then let all quarrels cea&s;e, that &s;o</L>
<L>We mutually may join</L>
<L>Again&s;t our Enemy man, which ought</L>
<L>To be our main de&s;ign,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which if we with true courage &s;hall</L>
<L>But &s;trenuou&s;ly pur&s;ue,</L>
<L><PB N="168" REF="88">In&s;tead of ruling over us,</L>
<L>We &s;hall the men &s;ubdue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus <HI>Bruin</HI> his opinion did</L>
<L>With open mouth declare,</L>
<L>But to the re&s;t the matter &s;till</L>
<L>Doth difficult appear.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o the Court broke up, without</L>
<L>Concluding any thing;</L>
<L>But in a while this very Bear</L>
<L>Was taken; and a ring</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Put through his no&s;e, and &s;o along</L>
<L>The &s;treets was led all day,</L>
<L>And for his Ma&s;ters profit forc't</L>
<L>To dance, and tricks to play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In this &s;ad po&s;ture <HI>Reynard</HI> chanc't</L>
<L>To meet the Captive Bear;</L>
<L>Alas, quoth he, poor Uncle, who</L>
<L>Could think you &s;hould be here?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah Cuz, &s;ays he, I to my co&s;t</L>
<L>Your words find to be true,</L>
<L>And &s;ee that it far ea&s;ier is</L>
<L>To talk than 'tis to do.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="moral">
<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
<L>Proud huffing fellows oft pretend</L>
<L>Great things to undertake,</L>
<L>But in performing of the &s;ame</L>
<L>Them&s;elves they Coxcombs make.</L>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="story">
<PB N="169" REF="88">
<HEAD>A merry Story.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P> Having been conver&s;ant with Birds and Bea&s;ts I will add one true &s;tory thereunto, which demon|&s;trates that &s;tupidity and ignorance po&s;&s;e&s;s &s;ome humane Souls to &s;uch a degree, that they &s;eem to have no more knowledge nor under&s;tanding than the Bea&s;ts that peri&s;h.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>IN the Reign of Q. <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> a Fellow who wore his Hat button'd up on one &s;ide, and a Feather therein like a Tooth Drawer, with the Ro&s;e and Crown on his Brea&s;t for a Badge, had obtain'd a Licen&s;e from the then Lord Chamberlain to make a &s;how of a great Ape, about the Country, who could perform many notable tricks; &amp; by going to Markets and Fairs, his Ma&s;ter pickt up a great deal of Money; the Ape u&s;ually rid upon a Ma&s;tiff Dog, and a Man beat a Drum before him; it happened that the&s;e four Travellers came to a Town called <HI>Loo</HI> in
<HI>Corn|wall,</HI> where having taken an Inn, the Drum beat about the Town to give notice that at &s;uch a place was an admirable Ape with very many notable qualities, if they plea&s;ed to be&s;tow their money and time to come and &s;ee him; but the Town&s;people being a &s;ort of poor Fi&s;hermen who mind|ed their own imployments, none of them thought it worth their while to &s;ee this worthy &s;ight; at which the Fellow being vext, re&s;olved to put a trick upon them whatever came of it, and thereupon he contrives a Warrant, which he &s;ends to the Mayor to this effect.
<Q>The&s;e are to will and require you, and every one of you, with your Wives and Familes, that upon &s;ight hereof, you make your per&s;onal appearance before the Queens Ape, for he is an Ape of rank and quality, and is to vi&s;it all Her Ma|je&s;ties Dominions, that by his conver&s;e and acquaintance with Her loving Subjects he may be the better enabled to do Her Maje&s;ty &s;ervice, in di&s;covering their fidelity and loyalty. And hereof fail not as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your utmo&s;t peril.</Q></P>
<P><PB N="170" REF="89">This Warrant being brought to the Mayor, he &s;ent for a Shoemaker at the further end of the Town to read it, which when he had heard, he a&s;&s;embled his brethren the Aldermen to the Common Hall to con&s;ult of this weigh|ty affair; being met, they all &s;ate &s;ilent at lea&s;t a quarter of an hour, no man &s;peaking a word, not knowing what to &s;ay; at length a young man who had never &s;erved any Office &s;aid; Gentlemen if I might &s;peak without offence, and under correction of the wor&s;hipful, I would give my opinion in this matter. Pray Neighbour &s;peak freely, quoth the Mayor, for tho' you never yet bore any Office, yet you may talk as wi&s;ely as &s;ome of us; then &s;ays the young man, I am of the mind that this Ape carrier is an in&s;olent &s;awcy knave, who de&s;igns to make our Town ri|diculous to the whole Kingdom, for was it ever known that a Fellow &s;hould be &s;o audacious to &s;end a Warrant without either name or date to a Mayor of a Town, who is the Queens Lieutenant, and that he and his brethren, their wives and children, &s;hould be all commanded to ap|pear before a Jackanapes, therefore my coun&s;el is, that you take him and his Ape, with his Man and his Dog, and whip the whole tribe of them out of the Town, which will be much for your reputation and credit.</P>
<P>At which words a Grave Alderman being much di&s;tur|bed, replied; Friend you have &s;poke little better than Trea&s;on, remember it is the Queen Ape, and therefore be careful what you &s;ay; you &s;peak true, brother, quoth the Mayor, I wonder how this &s;awcy fellow came into our company, pray friend, depart, I think you long to have us all hang'd; the young man being put out of doors; well now, Brethren, &s;ays the Mayor, what is to be done in this trouble&s;ome bu&s;ine&s;s? Marry, quoth another old Senior, we may &s;ee by the Feather in his Cap and the badge he wears, that he is the Queens man, and who knows what power a Knave may have at Court to do poor men in the Countrey an injury? therefore let us e'ne go and &s;ee the Ape, it is but two pence a piece, and no doubt the Queen
<PB N="171" REF="89"> will take it well if it come to her ear, and think that we are very civil people to &s;hew &s;o much duty to her Ape, what may &s;he imagine we would do to her Bears if they &s;hould come hither; Be&s;ides, it is above two hundred mile to <HI>London,</HI> and if we &s;hould be complain'd of, and fetcht up by Pur&s;ivants or Me&s;&s;engers, I'le warrant it would co&s;t us at lea&s;t ten Groats a man, whereas we may now come off for two pence a peice.</P>
<P>This wi&s;e &s;peech was thought &s;o pertinent, that the whole drove of Town&s;men with their Wives and Chil|dren went to &s;ee the Ape, whom they found &s;itting on a Table with a chain about his neck, to whom Mr. Mayor put off his Hat and made a Leg, to &s;hew his re&s;pect to the Queens Ape, yet Pug let him pa&s;s unregarded, but Mrs. Mayore&s;s coming next in a clean white Apron, with her hands laid upon it, &s;he to &s;hew her breeding makes a low Curt&s;ie to him, and Pug like a right Courtier, though he did not mind the Man, yet to &s;hew his re&s;pect to the Woman, put out his paw to her and made a mouth, which the Woman perceiving; Hu&s;band quoth &s;he, I think in my Con&s;cience the Queens Ape mocks me, whereat Pug made another wry face at her; which Mr. Mayor ob&s;erving, grew very angry, crying, Thou Sirrah Ape, I &s;ee thy &s;aucine&s;s, and if the re&s;t of the Courtiers have no more manners than thou ha&s;t, I am afraid they have been better fed than taught, but I'le make thee to know before thou goe&s;t out of Town that this Woman is my Wife, an ancient Woman and a Midwife, and one that for her Age may be thy Mother; and then going in a rage to the Door where the Apes Tutor was gathering up his pence; &s;ir, &s;ays he, do you allow your Ape to abu&s;e my Wife; no, by no means, quoth the Fellow; Truly &s;ir, cryes the Mayor, there is &s;ufficient witne&s;s with|in, that &s;aw him make mops and mows at her, as if &s;he were not worthy to wipe his Shoes; Pugs Schoolma&s;ter replied, &s;ir I'le pre&s;ently give him &s;evere cha&s;ti&s;ement for his impudence, and thereupon talking his Whip and
<PB N="172" REF="90"> holding Jack by the chain, he gave him half a dozen &s;mart la&s;hes, that made Pugs teeth chatter in his head like Virginal Jacks, which Mr. Mayor e&s;pying, runs to the Fellow and holding his hand, cryed out, Enough, enough, good &s;ir, you have done like a Gentleman, let me intreat you never to give correction in your wrath, and pray &s;ir, when the Play is done, be plea&s;ed to come along with your Ape to my hou&s;e, and both of you take a &s;mall &s;upper with me and my Wife.</P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="index">
<HEAD>A Table.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>A.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>ANT</HI> and <HI>Gra&s;hopper.</HI> page
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">3</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ape</HI> turn'd <HI>Carpenter.</HI> page 149</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>B.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Bird</HI> and <HI>Apes.</HI> page 45</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI> page 109</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bear</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 157</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>C.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Captain</HI> and <HI>Puppies.</HI> page 125</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>D.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Dear</HI> and <HI>Hound.</HI> page 97</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dolphin</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI> page 113</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dog, Wolf</HI> and <HI>A&s;s.</HI> page 73</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dog</HI> and <HI>Moon.</HI> page 105</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>F.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Flea</HI> and <HI>Gout.</HI> page 129</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI> page 133</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Bear.</HI> page 165</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox</HI> to Execution. page 29</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Lion.</HI> page 9</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox, Wolf</HI> and <HI>Mare.</HI> page 89</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fox</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 141</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>H.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 37</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hunt&s;man</HI> and <HI>Bear.</HI> page 41</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hedghog</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI> page 61</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Impertinent Trifler.</HI> page 57</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jupiter</HI> and Creatures. page 49</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>K.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Kid</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 17</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>L.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Lion, A&s;s</HI> and <HI>Fox.</HI> page 81</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Lapwing</HI> and <HI>Parrot.</HI> page 137</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>M.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Magpies, Vulture</HI> and <HI>Eagle.</HI> page 117</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Man</HI> and <HI>Serpent.</HI> page 85</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Monkey</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;er.</HI> page 65</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mock A&s;trologer.</HI> page 121</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Monkey</HI> and <HI>Che&s;nuts.</HI> page 1</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mou&s;e, Cock</HI> and <HI>Cat.</HI> page 33</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mou&s;e</HI> and <HI>Oy&s;ter.</HI> page 5</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>N.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Nightingale</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 93</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>O.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Old Woman</HI> and <HI>Skulls</HI> page 77</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>P.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Panther</HI> and <HI>Pea&s;ant.</HI> page 153</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Parrot</HI> and <HI>Cat.</HI> page 25</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>S.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Sheep</HI> and <HI>Dog.</HI> page 21</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Shephard, Fox</HI> and <HI>Wolf.</HI> page 145</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>W.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Wolf, Fox</HI> and <HI>Ape.</HI> page 161</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wolf</HI> and <HI>Apes.</HI> page 101</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wolf</HI> turn'd <HI>Shepherd.</HI> page 53</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Y.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Young Leonard Old. <HI>page 69</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<P N="9"><PB REF="92">IX. TWo Journeys to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> Containing fir&s;t, An Account of the Travels of two Engli&s;h Pil|grims &s;ome years &s;ince, and what Admirable Accidents befel them in their Journey to <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Grand Cairo, Alexandria, &amp;c.</HI> 2. The Travels of 14 Engli&s;h Merchants in 1669. from <HI>Scanderoon</HI> to <HI>Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jeru|&s;alem, Bethlehem, Jericho,</HI> the River of <HI>Jordan,</HI> the Lake of <HI>Sodom</HI> and
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1650. to examine the Scriptures concerning Chri&s;t. By <HI>S.B.</HI> an <HI>Engli&s;h-man</HI> there pre&s;ent: With the notorious De|lu&s;ion of the <HI>Jews,</HI> by a counterfeit Me&s;&s;iah, or fal&s;e Chri&s;t at <HI>Smyrna</HI> in 1666. and the event thereof. La&s;tly, The Extirpation of the <HI>Jews</HI> throughout <HI>Per&s;ia</HI> in 1666. Epi&s;tle of King <HI>Agbarus</HI> to our Saviour with our Savi|our's An&s;wer; Beautified with Pictures. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="10">X. EXtraordinary Adventures of &s;everal Famous Men; with the &s;trange Events, and &s;ignal Mutations and Changes in the Fortunes of divers Il|lu&s;trious places and per&s;ons in all Ages; Being an Ac|count of a multitude of Stupendious revolutions, acci|dents, and ob&s;ervable matters in divers States, and Pro|vinces throughout the whole world. With Pictures. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="11">XI. THE Hi&s;tory of the Nine Worthies of the World; Three whereof were Gentiles; 1.
<HI>Hector</HI> Son of <HI>Priamus</HI> King of <HI>Troy.</HI> 2. <HI>Alexander</HI> the Great King of <HI>Macedon</HI> and Conqueror of the World. 3. <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar</HI> fir&s;t Emperor of
<HI>Rome.</HI> Three Jews. 4. <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> Captain General and Leader of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> into <HI>Ca|naan.</HI> 5. <HI>David</HI> King of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> 6. <HI>Judas Maccabeus</HI> a Va|liant <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Commander again&s;t the Tyranny of <HI>Antio|chus.</HI> Three Chri&s;tians. 7. <HI>Arthur</HI> King of <HI>Brittain,</HI> who couragiou&s;ly defended his Countrey again&s;t the <HI>Saxons.</HI> 8. <HI>Charles</HI> the Great K. of <HI>France</HI> and Emperor
<PB REF="92"> of <HI>Germany;</HI> 9. <HI>Godfrey</HI> of <HI>Bullen</HI> King of
<HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> Be|ing an account of their Glorious Lives, Worthy Actions, renowned Victories and Deaths. Illu&s;trated with Poems and the Picture of each Worthy. By <HI>R. B.</HI> Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="12">XII. FEmale Excellency or the Ladies Glory, Illu|&s;trated in the Worthy Lives and Memorable Actions of Nine Famous Women, who have been re|nowned either for Virtue or Valour in &s;everal Ages of the World: As, I. <HI>Deborah</HI> the Prophete&s;s. II. The Vali|ant
<HI>Judith.</HI> III. Queen <HI>E&s;ther.</HI> IV. The Virtuous <HI>Su&s;an|na.</HI> V. The Cha&s;t
<HI>Lucretia.</HI> VI. <HI>Voadicia</HI> Queen of <HI>Brit|tain</HI> in the reign of <HI>Nero</HI> Emperor of <HI>Rome.</HI> Containing an Account of the Original Inhabitants of <HI>Brittain.</HI> The Hi&s;tory of <HI>Danaus</HI> and his Fifty Daughters who murder|ed their Husbands in one night; Of the arrival of <HI>Brute.</HI> Of the Two Giants <HI>Corineus</HI> and <HI>Gogmagog;</HI> Of King <HI>Lear</HI> and his three Daughters; Of <HI>Belin</HI> and <HI>Bren|nus</HI> who took the City of <HI>Rome;</HI> Of the manner of <HI>Juli|us Cae&s;ars</HI> invading <HI>Brittain,</HI> and of the Valour of <HI>Voadi|cia</HI> under who&s;e conduct the <HI>Brittains</HI> &s;lew &s;eventy thou|&s;and <HI>Romans,</HI> with many other remarkable particulars. VII. <HI>Mariamne</HI> Wife to King <HI>Herod.</HI> VIII. <HI>Clotilda</HI> Queen of <HI>France.</HI> IX. <HI>Andegona</HI> Prince&s;s of <HI>Spain.</HI> The whole adorned with Poems and Pictures to each Hi&s;tory. By
<HI>R. B.</HI> Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="13">XIII. VVOnderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy, di&s;covered in above 300 memorable Hi&s;tories, containing, 1. Dreadful Judg|ments upon Athei&s;ts, Bla&s;phemers, and perjured Vil|lains. 2. The mi&s;erable ends of many Magicians, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 3. Remarkable predictions and pre&s;ages of approach|ing death, and how the event has been an&s;werable. 4. Fearful Judgments upon bloudy Tyrants, Murde|rers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 5. Admirable Deliverances from imminent dangers, and deplorable di&s;tre&s;&s;es at Sea and Land. La&s;tly, Divine goodne&s;s to Penitents, with the Dying
<PB REF="93"> Thoughts of &s;everal famous Men, concerning a future &s;tate after this Life. Imbelli&s;hed with divers Pictures. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="14">XIV. UNparallel'd Varieties, or the Matchle&s;s Actions and Pa&s;&s;ions of Mankind; di&s;play'd in near 400 notable in&s;tances and examples; Di&s;cover|ing the tran&s;cendent effects; 1. <HI>Of Love, Friend&s;hip</HI> and <HI>Gratitude,</HI> 2. <HI>Of Magnanimity, Courage,</HI> and <HI>Fidelity.</HI> 3. <HI>Of Cha&s;tity, Temperance,</HI> and <HI>Humility,</HI> And on the contrary, the Tremendous Con&s;equences. 4. <HI>Of Ha|tred, Revenge</HI> and
<HI>Ingratitude.</HI> 5. <HI>Of Cowardice, Barba|rity,</HI> and <HI>Treachery.</HI> 6. <HI>Of &V;ncha&s;tity, Intemperance</HI> and <HI>Am|bition.</HI> Imbelli&s;hed with proper Figures.
<HI>Pr.</HI> 1. <HI>s.</HI></P>
<P N="15">XV. THE Kingdom of Darkne&s;s: Or the Hi&s;tory of Demons, Specters, Witches, Apparitions, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, Di&s;turbances, and other wonderful and &s;u|pernatural Delu&s;ions, Mi&s;chievous Feats, and Malicious Impo&s;tures of the Devil. Containing near Four&s;core memorable Relations, Forreign and Dome&s;tick, both Antient and Modern. Collected from Authentick Re|cords, Real Atte&s;tations, Credible Evidences, and a&s;&s;ert|ed by Authors of Undoubted Verity. Together with a Preface obviating the common Objections and Allegati|ons of the Sadduces and Athei&s;ts of the Age, who deny the Being of Spirits, Witches, &amp;c. With Pictures of &s;everal memorable Accidents. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="16">XVI. SUrprizing <HI>Miracles of Nature and Art,</HI> in 2 parts containing, I. The Miracles of Nature, or the wonderful <HI>Signs,</HI> and <HI>Prodigious A&s;pects and Appearances</HI> in the <HI>Heavens, Earth and Sea;</HI> With an Account of the mo&s;t famous
<HI>Comets,</HI> and other <HI>Prodigies,</HI> from the Birth of Chri&s;t to this time. II. The
<HI>Miracles of Art,</HI> de&s;cribing the mo&s;t <HI>Magnificent Buildings,</HI> and other curious Inven|tions in all Ages; as, the <HI>Seven Wonders of the World,</HI> and many other excellent Structures and Rarities through|out the Earth. Beautified with Pictures. Pr. 1 Shilling.</P>
<P N="17"><PB REF="93">XVII. THE <HI>Scarlet Whore,</HI> or the wicked Abomina|tions, and horrid Cruelties and Per&s;ecuti|ons of the Pope and Church of <HI>Rome</HI> di&s;played. Being a brief Relation of their Bloody Practices, and Inhu|mane Tortures inflicted upon Prote&s;tants for many hundred years pa&s;t to this pre&s;ent, in all Countreys where they had Authority and Dominion; namely, in
<HI>Piedmont, Bohemia, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Scotland, Ireland,</HI> and <HI>Eng|land;</HI> Containing among many other particulars, The Original and Practices of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Inqui&s;ition, The Ma&s;&s;acre at <HI>Paris;</HI> The bloody Ma&s;&s;acre in <HI>Ireland</HI> 1641. wherein above two hundred Thou&s;and innocent Prote&s;tants were barbarou&s;ly murdered, and the Pro|phecy thereof by Arch-bi&s;hop
<HI>&V;&s;her</HI> Forty years before it happened; The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Inva&s;ion; The Gun-pow|der-Trea&s;on, with the &s;everal Plots and Contrivances of the Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits for Extirpating the Prote&s;tant Religion, till the time of our Glorious Deliverance from Popery and Slavery, by the Acce&s;&s;ion of their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties King <HI>William</HI> and Queen
<HI>Ma|ry</HI> to the Throne of the&s;e Kingdoms. With an Ab&s;tract of the Cruel Per&s;ecutions lately exerci&s;ed upon the Prote&s;tants in <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Savoy,</HI> in the years 1686, and 1687. Together with a &s;hort Account of Gods Judg|ments upon Popi&s;h Per&s;ecutors. Publi&s;hed for a Sea|&s;onable Warning to all Prote&s;tants, to inform them what they mu&s;t expect from that bloody Generation of Antichri&s;tians. Price One Shilling.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Mi&s;cellanies.</HEAD>
<P N="18">XVIII. <HI>DElights for the Ingenious,</HI> in above Fifty Select and choice Emblems Divine and Moral, Ancient and Modern, Curiou&s;ly Ingraven upon Copper Plates; with Fifty delightful <HI>Poems</HI> and <HI>Lots,</HI> for the more Lively Illu&s;tration of each Emblem; Whereby In&s;truc|tion and Good Coun&s;el may be promoted and furthered by an hone&s;t and plea&s;ant Recreation. To which is pre|fixed,
<PB REF="94"> An Incomparable Poem Intituled, <HI>Maje&s;ty in Mi&s;ery,</HI> or an Imploration to the King of Kings written by his late Maje&s;ty, K. <HI>Charles</HI> I. with his own Hand, during his Captivity in <HI>Carisbrook</HI> Ca&s;tle in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> 1648. With a curious Emblem. Collected by <HI>R.B.</HI> Pr. 2 s. 6 d.</P>
<P N="19">XIX. EXcellent Contemplations Divine and Moral Written by the Magnanimous and truly Loyal
<HI>A.L. Capel</HI> Baron of <HI>Hadham;</HI> Together with &s;ome Account of his Life, and his affectionate Letters to his Lady the day before his Death, with his Heroick Beha|viour and la&s;t Speech at his Suffering; Al&s;o the Speeches and Carriages of D. <HI>Ham.</HI> and the E. of
<HI>Holl.</HI> who &s;uffered with him: With his pious Advice to his Son Price 1 s.</P>
<P N="20">XX. <HI>WInter Evenings Entertainments</HI> in 2 Parts Containing, 1. Ten Plea&s;ant Relations of many Rare and Notable Accidents and Occurrences; with brief Remarks upon every one. 2. Fifty Ingeni|ous Riddles, with their Explanations, and u&s;eful Ob|&s;ervations; and Morals upon each. Enlivened with above 60 Pictures, for illu&s;trating every Story and Rid|dle. Excellently Accommodated to the Fancies of Old or Young, and u&s;eful to chearful Society and Conver|&s;ation. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="21">XXI. DElightful Fables in Pro&s;e and Ver&s;e, none of them to be found in
<HI>Ae&s;op,</HI> but collect|ed from divers Ancient and Modern Authors; with Pictures and proper Morals to every Fable. Several of them very pertinent and applicable to the pre&s;ent times. Publi&s;hed as a means which in all Ages hath been found u&s;eful for plea&s;ure and likewi&s;e for in&s;truction in the prudent conduct of our Lives and Actions. By <HI>R. B.</HI> Price Bound One Shilling,</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Divinity.</HEAD>
<P N="22">XXII. THE <HI>Divine Banquet,</HI> or <HI>Sacramental Devoti|ons,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of Morning and Evening Prayers, Contemplations and Hymns for every day in
<PB REF="94"> the Week, in order to a more Solemn Preparation for the worthy Receiving of the Holy Communion, Repre|&s;enting the &s;everal &s;teps and degrees of the Sorrow and &s;ufferings of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, till he gave up the Gho&s;t; As, 1. <HI>His Agony in the Garden.</HI> 2.
<HI>His be|ing betrayed by</HI> Judas. 3. <HI>His being fal&s;ly Accu&s;ed, Smitten, Buffeted and Spit upon before</HI> Caiaphas <HI>the high prie&s;t.</HI> 4. <HI>His Condemnation, Scourging, Crowning with Thorns, and being delivered to be Crucified by</HI> Pontius Pilate. 5. <HI>His bearing his Cro&s;s to</HI> Golgotha. 6. <HI>His Crucifixion and bit|ter Pa&s;&s;ion.</HI> 7.
<HI>Our Saviours In&s;titution of the Ble&s;&s;ed Sacra|ment.</HI> Together with brief Re&s;olutions to all tho&s;e Scru|ples and Objections u&s;ually alledged for the omi&s;&s;ion of this important Duty. With Eight curious Sculptures proper to the &s;everal parts, with Graces.
<HI>Imprimatur.</HI> Z. I&s;ham, R. P. D. Hen. <HI>Epi&s;.</HI> Lond. <HI>&agrave; Sacris.</HI> Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="23">XXIII. A <HI>Guide to eternal Glory:</HI> Or, Brief Directi|ons to all Chri&s;tians how to attain Ever|la&s;ting Salvation: To which are added &s;everal other &s;mall Tracts; As I. Saving Faith di&s;covered in three Heavenly Conferences between our Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and 1. A Publican.
2. A Phari&s;ee. 3. A Doubting Chri&s;tian. II. The Threefold &s;tate of a Chri&s;tian. 1. By Nature. 2. By Grace. 3. In Glory. III. The Scriptures Concord, compiled out of the words of Scripture, by way of Que&s;tion and An&s;wer, wherein there is the &s;um of the way to Salvation, and Spiritual things compared with Spiritual. IV. The Character of a True Chri&s;tian. V. A brief Directory for the Great, Nece&s;|&s;ary and Advantagious Duty of Self-Examination, where|by a &s;erious Chri&s;tian may every day Examine him&s;elf. VI. A &s;hort Dialogue between a Learned Divine and a Beggar. VII. Beams of the Spirit, or Cordial Meditations Enlivening, Enlightning, and Gladding the Soul. VIII. The Seraphick Souls Triumph in the Love of God. With &s;hort remembrances and Pious thoughts. IX. Hi&s;tory Improv|ed
<PB REF="95"> or Chri&s;tian Applications and Improvements of di|vers remarkable pa&s;&s;ages in Hi&s;tory. X. Holy Breathings in &s;everal Divine Poems upon divers Subjects and Scrip|tures. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="24">XXIV. YOuths Divine Pa&s;time; Containing Forty Remarkable Scripture Hi&s;tories, turned in|to common <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ver&s;e. With Forty Pictures proper to each Story; very delightful for the virtuous imploy|ing the vacant hours of Young Per&s;ons, and preventing vain and vitious Diverti&s;ements. Together with &s;everal Scripture Hymns upon divers occa&s;ions. Price 8 d.</P>
<P N="25">XXV. THE Young Mans Calling or the whole Duty of Youth, in a &s;erious and com|pa&s;&s;ionate Addre&s;s to all young per&s;ons to remember their Creator in the days of their Youth. Together with Remarks upon the Lives of &s;everal excellent young Per&s;ons of both Sexes, as well Ancient as Modern, who have been famous for Virtue and Piety in their Genera|tions, namely, on the Lives of <HI>I&s;aac</HI> and <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> in their youth. On the Martyrdom of &s;even Sons and their Mo|ther. Of <HI>Romanus</HI> a young Nobleman, and of divers Holy Virgins and Martyrs. On the Lives of King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> VI. Queen <HI>Jane,</HI> Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> in her youth, Prince <HI>Henry</HI> Elde&s;t &s;on of King <HI>James,</HI> and the young Lord
<HI>Harrington,</HI> &amp;c. With twelve curious Pictures, Il|lu&s;trating the &s;everal Hi&s;tories. Price 1. s. 6. d.</P>
<P N="26">XXVI. THE Vanity of the Life of Man repre&s;ent|ed in the Seven &s;everal Stages thereof; With Pictures and Poems expo&s;ing the Follies of eve|ry Age. To which is added, Ver&s;es upon &s;everal Sub|jects and Occa&s;ions, Containing, The Hi&s;tory of the cruel Death of
<HI>Ca&s;&s;ianus</HI> Bi&s;hop and School-Ma&s;ter of <HI>Bre&s;cia</HI> in <HI>Italy,</HI> who &s;uffered Martyrdom for the Pro|fe&s;&s;ion of the Chri&s;tian Faith by the hands of his own Scholars in the Bloudy Reign of <HI>Diocle&s;ian</HI> an Heathen Emperor of <HI>Rome;</HI> With divers other Poems compiled by Mrs. <HI>Ann Askew</HI> and Mr. <HI>John Rogers</HI> whil&s;t they
<PB REF="95"> were Pri&s;oners in <HI>Newgate,</HI> and afterward burnt in <HI>Smithfield,</HI> In the bloudy Reign of Queen <HI>Mary.</HI> By <HI>R.</HI>B. Lcen&s;ed and Entred. Price Eight Pence.</P>
<P N="27">XXVII. MOunt Sion, or a Draught of that Church that &s;hall &s;tand for ever. Together with a view of that World which &s;hall be broken in pieces and con&s;umed. By <HI>William Dyer,</HI> Author of Chri&s;ts Fa|mous Titles, and a Believers Golden Chain. Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="28">XXVIII. DI&s;tre&s;&s;ed Sion Relieved, or, the Garment of Prai&s;e for the Spirit of Heavine&s;s. A Poem. Wherein are Di&s;covered the grand Cau&s;es of the Churches trouble and mi&s;ery under the late di&s;|mal Di&s;pen&s;ation. With a compleat Hi&s;tory of, and Lamentation for tho&s;e Renowned Worthies that fell in <HI>England</HI> by Popi&s;h rage and cruelty, from the Year 1680 to 1688. As the Lord <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> Collonel <HI>Sydney,</HI> Alderman
<HI>Corni&s;h,</HI> and divers others; With a Relation of the cruel proceedings, of the late Lord Chancellor <HI>Jefferys</HI> in the We&s;t. Together with an account of the late Admirable and Stupendious Providence which hath wrought &s;uch a &s;udden and wonderful Deliverance for this Nation, and Gods <HI>Sion</HI> therein. Concluding with the Tryal and Condemnation of My&s;tery
<HI>Babylon</HI> the Great Whore; &amp; divers Hymns of Prai&s;e &amp; Thank&s;|giving: with Sighs for <HI>Ireland.</HI> Humbly Dedicated to their Pre&s;ent Maje&s;ties. By <HI>Benjamin Keach,</HI> Author of a Book called, <HI>Sion in Di&s;tre&s;s, or the Groans of the True Prote&s;tant Church.</HI> Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="29">XXIX. ANtichri&s;t Stormed, or the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> proved to be My&s;tery
<HI>Babylon</HI> the Great Whore, <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. by many and undeniable Argu|ments An&s;wering all the Objections of the Papi&s;ts, and all others. Together with the Judgment of ma|ny Ancient and Modern Divines, and mo&s;t Eminent Writers about the My&s;tical Numbers in <HI>Daniel</HI> and
<PB REF="96"> <HI>Revelations,</HI> concerning the ri&s;e and final ruin of the Bea&s;t and
<HI>Babylon,</HI> proving it will be in this pre&s;ent Age. Together with an Account of the Two Wit|ne&s;&s;es, who they are, their Slaying, Re&s;urrection and A&s;cen&s;ion, with the probability of their being now up|on their Ri&s;ing; &s;hewing al&s;o what their A&s;cen&s;ion is, and the glorious Effects thereof. With an Account of many &s;trange Predictions relating to the&s;e pre&s;ent Times. By <HI>Benjamin Keach.</HI> Price One Shilling.</P>
<P N="30">XXX. THE Devout Soul's Daily Exerci&s;e in Prayers, Contemplations and Prai&s;es, containing Devotions for Morning, Noon, and Night, for every day in the week; with Prayers before and af|ter the Holy Communion: And likewi&s;e for Per&s;ons of all conditions, and upon all occa&s;ions: With Graces and Thank&s;givings before and after Meat. By <HI>R.P.</HI>D.D. Price bound Six Pence.</P>
<P N="31">XXXI. <HI>SAcramental Meditations</HI> upon divers &s;elect pla|ces of Scripture, wherein Believers are a&s;&s;i&s;ted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their af|fections and graces when they draw nigh to God in that mo&s;t awful and &s;olemn Ordinance of the Lords Supper. By
<HI>Jo. Flavel</HI> Mini&s;ter of Chri&s;t in <HI>Devon.</HI> Pr. 1. s.</P>
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