Mythologia ethica, or, Three centuries of Æsopian fables in English prose done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and all other eminent authors on this subject : illustrated with moral, philosophical, and political precepts : also with aphorisms and proverbs in several languages, and adorned with many curious sculptures cut on copper plates / by Philip Ayres, Esq.

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Title: Mythologia ethica, or, Three centuries of Æsopian fables in English prose done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and all other eminent authors on this subject : illustrated with moral, philosophical, and political precepts : also with aphorisms and proverbs in several languages, and adorned with many curious sculptures cut on copper plates / by Philip Ayres, Esq.
Author: Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Hawkins,; 1689.
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Subject terms: Fables.
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FAB. XCIII. The Fig-tree and the Hawthorn.

A Fig-tree that was plentifully hung with green Fruit, growing by a Thorn Bush, that hap∣pened to be then in its Flowers, was asked by the Thorn, in Derision, where were its blossoms? Pray, said the Fig-tree, where's your Fruit? Na∣ture, answered the Thorn, has not bestowed on me any that is considerable: Why then, demand∣ed the Figtree, Do you in scorn require blossoms of me, when you see me thus stored with Fruit, which is so much better than Flowers?

Honour can never be wanting to Vertue, tho' it may not at all times be so conspicuous, as on some par∣ticular occasions: And so may base and contemp∣tible Things happen to appear in some Splendor for a time.