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AESOP'S FABLES English and Latin.
1. Of the Cock.
1. A Cock, as he turn'd over a dunghil, found a pearl: saying, Why do I find a thing so bright?
2. If the jeweller had found it, none would have been more glad than he; as being one that could tell the worth of it.
3. It is indeed of no use to me, nor do I much value it: nay truly, I had rather have a barley-corn than all the Pearls in the World.
4. The Moral. Ʋnderstandly the Pearl, Art and Wisdom: and by the Cock a dotish man, and one that is given to pleasure.
5. Neither do blockish people love the Liberal Arts, seeing they know not the use of them; nor a voluptuous person; because he delighteth only in pleasure.
2. Of the Wolf and the Lamb.
1. A Wolf, drinking at a spring-head, saw a Lamb drinking a great way below.
2. He ran to it, and chid the Lamb; because it muddied the Spring.
3. The Lamb trembled, and humbly besought him, that he would spare an innocent.
4. Saying, that he, because he drank a great way below, could not in∣deed muddy the W••ve's drink. much less would he.
5. The Wolf rails aloud on the contrary: Thou varlet, thou hadst a•• good do nothing: thou art always opposing me; thy fire, thy dam, and all thy kind whom I cannot abide to see, do what thy can to cross me.
6. I will punish thee to day.
7. Mor. It is an old saying. It is an easie thing to find a stick to beat 〈◊〉〈◊〉 dog with.
8. A great man if h••••ist to hurt, doth soon ••••ke an occasion to hurt.
9. He hath offended sufficiently, that could 〈◊〉〈◊〉 resist.
3. Of the Mouse and the Frog.
1. A Mouse made war with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Frog.
2. They fought for the command of the Fen.