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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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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London :: Printed by I.L. for Andrew Hebb ...,
1646.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26488.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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A Fox and an Eagle. Fab. 28.
ALthough men are in high e∣state, notwithstanding they ought to feare to oppresse the lower sort, because revenge is manifest to the ingenious, by his industry. On a time an Eagle tooke up a Foxes Cubs, and laid them down in her neast to her young ones, that they might eate: the Mother Fox fol∣lowing her began to beseech her in∣stantly, that she would not bring so great calamitie upon her poore cai∣tifes: but she despised, because she was in a safe place: therefore the Fox tooke from the Altar a burning firebrand, and therewith she enviro∣ned the whole tree with flames, threatning griefe to her enemy, for the losse of her blood: the Eagle
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now intreating to deliver her own from danger of death, restored the Cubs safe to the Fox.
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