Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.

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Title: Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.
Author: Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.
Publication: Edinburgh :: printed for Mr. Andrew Symson, and are to be sold by him at the foot of the Horse-Wynd in the Cowgate; and by Mr. Henry Knox in the Lucken-Booths,; M. DCC. [1700]
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Subject terms: L'Estrange, Roger, -- Sir 1616-1704 -- Early works to 1800.; Aesop's fables -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41556.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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FAB. CCCLIV. Page 324.

To this Taylor's Wife, the Queen of Corinth (espoused to Periander one of the seven Wise-Men of Greece) and that infamous Xantippe, married to Socrates, may be said to have been Cousin-germans, for their Husbands had as often served Inhibition against them, not to overturn their Tables, Meat and all, especiallie when Strangers were their Guests, as the Taylor had pro∣hibited his Wife to call Him Prick-Louse; Yet all in vain, Hinc Inde, But we need not travel the length of Greece for such exotick Plants, since our own Countrey affords Us but too manie noisome Weeds of that Nature; Yet I can∣not but approve the judicious Observation of the Commentator, That there be as many shrewd Husbands, as there be female shrews in the World; and that the Man is more to blame, because he ought to have more Knowlege and Wit than the Wife; and if we beleeve the H. Scripture, It's the Glory of a Man to pass by Infirmities, and to cover the Imperfections of a Wife, if possibly they can be palliated.