The Phrygian fabulist or, The fables of Æsop: extracted from the Latine copie, and moraliz'd. By Leonard Willan Gent.

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The Phrygian fabulist or, The fables of Æsop: extracted from the Latine copie, and moraliz'd. By Leonard Willan Gent.
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London :: Printed by W.D. for Nicolas Bourn, at the south entrance of the Roial-Exchange,
1650 [i.e. 1649]
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Fables, Greek -- Translations into English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Phrygian fabulist or, The fables of Æsop: extracted from the Latine copie, and moraliz'd. By Leonard Willan Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A75953.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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100. The Boie and his Mother.

A Little Boie but late to schole put forth, From thence a Horn-book stole, of little worth, Which to his Mother did, return'd, present; And shee receiv'd, neglecting Chastisement. This daily practice hee persever'd in, Till use to greater things encourag'd him: For which hee by the Magistrates condemn'd, Was to the Gallows led, to make his End. Whom his bewailing Mother following; Hee of his Guard crav'd, shee might speak to him:

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To which assenting; Shee with speed drew near, And to his mouch applied close her Ear: Where in his teeth set (with such furie led) That strait her Ear hee pul'd off from her head, For which his Mother, and the standers by, Reproached him with this new Infamie: But unabash't, hee published that shee The onely caus was of his miserie: For th'Horn-books theft had shee corrected him, Hee had no farther Progress made therein.
MORAL.
Indulgent Parents to correct denie The seeming trifles ev'n of Infancie: To how imperi'us a Guid they resign Their pliant Wils, do truly not define: Custom a second Nature is, though blinde, O'reswai's the clearest functions of the Minde: "With what liquor wee vessels first inure, "Longest in them that Odor will endure.
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