Æsops fables, with the fables of Phaedrus moralized, translated verbatim, according to the Latine, for the use of grammar schooles, and for children ... / published by H.P.

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Title: Æsops fables, with the fables of Phaedrus moralized, translated verbatim, according to the Latine, for the use of grammar schooles, and for children ... / published by H.P.
Publication: London :: Printed by I.L. for Andrew Hebb ...,; 1646.
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Of the Doves and the Kite.

Fab. 16.

THe Pigeons in time past did wage warre with the Kite, whom that they might overcome, they chose a Goshawke for their King, he being made a King, doth play the enemy, not a King, he snatcheth at them and plucketh them no lesse then the Kite: it repenteth the Doves of their enter∣prises:

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they thinke it had been bet∣ter to suffer the warres of the Kite, then the tyranny of the Hawke.