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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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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Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Hawkins,
1689.
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Fables.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a26524.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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FAB. XXVI. The Country-man and Fortune.
IN digging the Earth, a Country-man found a Treasure of Gold; and for a Memorial of the great Benefit there received, he daily brought a Chaplet or Garland of Flowers, which by way of Gratitude he left on the place. But Fortune ap∣pearing to him, asked him why he attributed her Gifts to the Earth? which; said she, I gave thee on purpose to encrease thy Riches; for I know that if times should change, and this Gold go to
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another hand, thou wouldst then accuse For∣tune for the loss.
This Fable admonishes us to acknowledg our true Benefactors, and to pay them a grateful respect.
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