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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An old Lion, the Bull and an Asse.

Fab. 21.

VVHosoever hath lost his for∣mer dignitie is also a mock∣ing stocke to the base and lazie in adversitie. The Lion wasted by yeares and decayed of his strength, when he was lying drawing his last breath, the Boare came upon him with thunderbolt tuskes, and reven∣ged his old grudge with blowes: al∣so the cruell Bull out of hand pierced with his hornes his enemies body: when the Asse saw the Beast hurt without punishment, he kicked his forehead with his heeles, but he, breathing out his last, saith, I have hardly brooked, that the strong or

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the valiant should insult over me, but truly I seeme twice to die, sith I am compelled to beare and suffer thee, the ignominie of nature.