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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198. The Crab and Fox.

A Crab asscended with the tide, From Sea to Land, would there reside; On whom a Hungrie Fox, past by, Casting, by chance, his searching Eie, Unto her went without delaie, And of her made his welcom Preie: Who, on the Period of her Death, Expired sadly thus her Breath:

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I justly die; since of the Sea, I coveted of Earth to bee.
MORAL.
Such Damage simple Men incur (wee see) Affecting Change, seek strange Communitie: Long Habits onely Them have Judgment lent; Whence they thrive not, but in that Element.
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