Æsop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Æsop's with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand.
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Æsop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Æsop's with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ...,
1673.
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"Æsop improved, or, Above three hundred and fifty fables, mostly Æsop's with their morals paraphrased in English verse : amounting to about one hundred and fifty more than do appear to have been so rendered by any other hand." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26535.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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FAB. 176. Of the Fowler and the Chaffinch.
A Fowler had dispers'd great store of meat,Hoping the birds would thither come and eat;They came, but only some few at a time,The Bells he rang, he hop'd all in to chime:E're he had done, he scorn'd to take a few,To have at all a generous mind might shew;He thought, their manner was, some went, someTo wave a few his mind was still the same:At length night came, who would have all or none,Found the remainder for to be but one.
Mor.
'Tis n't good to grasp at all, lest all we loose,Something a man would have in hand to choose;At one bird in the hand do not cry tash,Thou mayst hereafter catch ten more ith' bush:Been't all for presents, nor yet all for futures;(Both before and behind thy head hath suturesTo make all fast) wise men are best contentTo take some Fine, and to receive some Rent.
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