Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.

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Title: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
Publication: London :: Printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchil, and J. Hindmarsh,; 1692.
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Subject terms: Aesop.; Fables.
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REFLEXION.

THIS Quirk is little better than the Childrens Play of Riddle me, Riddle me; though the Conceit I know is Celebrated among the Apo∣thegms of the Ancients. The Mony and the Cloaths were Lost on pur∣pose to make way for the Jest; as the Gentleman dropt his Book into the River, off of Maudlin Bridge in Cambridge: What's that, says one of his Acquaintance that was passing by? Alas, says t'other, 'tis Iust In; now the Book was Iustin. We may observe from hence, what Pains some Men take to make themselves Ridiculous, and that Study may im∣prove a Coxcomb as well as a Philosopher. We may learn further, that Men do not know when they are well, or when they have enough; but shift and squander till they would half Hang themselves at last, to be where they were again. It may be another Note too, the Unreasona∣bleness of Jesting in Cases of Distress: So that the Figure at last is Fool all over. Upon the whole, the Fellow Plays, and loses his very Back-side, and then Cries: And what is all this more now, then the laying of a Train for bringing in by Head and Shoulders the miserable Conceit of Nothing upon Nothing.