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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157. The Ants and Grashopper.

THe Winter Solstice beeing past; The Ants their Wheat a Sunning cast; The Grashopper this discovered, Who was with want nigh famished;

Page 131

With humble sute did them aboard, They would thereof him Alms afford. The Ants ask't, what in Summer hee Had don? or why past slothfully? The Grashopper replied; hee then Sung cheerfully to passing Men, To take from Them the dull delaie, And tedious travel of the waie. Which heard, the smiling Ants repli'd; Their Suters follie to deride. Since thou in Songs hast Summer spent, For Passenger's Divertisement: In dancing now thy Limbs unfold, Least thou bee starved with the cold.
MORAL.
Who hath their Youth in idle pastimes spent In Age may vainly beg their Nourishment: While the Industrious on his Plentie Feasts, And make's their Wants the subject of his Jests.
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