FAB. 226. Of the Nightingal that promised the Hawk a Song for her life.
Awarbling Nightingal caught by a Hawk,
Could by no melody his clutches bawk;
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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Dear Sir, said he, be pleas'd to let me go,
How thankful I shall be I'le let you know;
I'le fill your ears with many a pleasant song,
Spare but my life and do me but no wrong:
You fill my ears said he? pray fill my belly
That must be fill'd, that has no ears I tell you,
I can well fast from songs, all the year round,
But not from meat, for that would soon redound
To my great hurt, (in sour and twenty hours)
My bowels yearn for you, as I am yours.
Mor.
Let Minstrels stand behind, 'tis a disease
Less to mind what will profit than will please.