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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"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 8, 2024.

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FAB. XLII. The Shipwrack'd Man and the Sea.

TIred, and half Dead with Swimming, came a poor Shipwrack'd Man to Shoar, where he had no sooner laid him down, but he fell asleep; and at his waking found the Tempest ceased, and the Water calm. This moving his Patience, he began to accuse the Sea of Treachery, that allu∣ring Men with its smooth Looks, tempts them to venture on it, and then swallows them up in its insatiate Waves. But the Sea taking the Shape of a Woman, thus answered him: Be not, Inconsiderate Man, so ready to accuse me, but rather blame the Winds; for I am naturally what thou seest me now, till they come rushing vio∣lently upon me, raise my Billows, and make me commit these Out-rages.

We should not Quarrel with such Persons for doing us Injuries, as but obey the Commands of others; but we should rather blame those who set them on work to wrong us. It also may serve as a Cau∣tion to those who without being compelled by Ne∣cessity, expose themselves to the continual Dangers of the Sea. The old Poet Antiphanes very well said,

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. In Terra egenum satius est te vivere, Quam navigare possidentem plurima. 'Tis better living safe at home, and poor, Than cross the raging Sea t' increase thy store.

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