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. 190. vide FAB. 82. FAB. 191. Of the wax that desired to be hard.
IT melted wax to see its self so soft,Melted it into tears considering oft;How hard were bricks, made of a certain clayMore soft than wax, after a while that theyHad lain in fiery Kils, so firm, and sure,Were they as many ages might endure:At this the waxe threw its self into th' fire,To be as hard as bricks it did aspireBut there't did waste, did not waxe hard but wan,After a while it in the fire had lain.
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Mor.
One medicine Doctors Mountebanks we call,It will not have the same effect on all:On different subjects, different effects,The same things have, which whosoe're rejectsMay know without much skill in arts or tongues,Those waters help the spleen, which hurt the lungs.
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