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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6. The Wolf and Crane.

A Wolf, a Lamb devouring, felt a bone Stick in his throat; but help could have of none, Though manie sought to; All reproach't him, hee The Price bore justly of his crueltie: With soothing words, and promisses as fair, The Crane was won to succou r his despair, Who in his Guel thrust her exalted Neck, And thence the bone extracted with her Beck;

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Which don, forthwith shee her reward desir'd; The Wolf affirm'd, shee had, what shee requir'd, Nor in his pow'r, was greater good to give, 'Twas by his grace and suff'rance shee did live; For when her head was in his mouth, hee might Have sent her swiftly to her latest night.
MORAL.
To simple Natures, men indu'd with might, In their extreams, much promise; paie with slight. When in their powers, so, the wicked still Think they do good to them, they do no ill.
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