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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Fables.
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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. 228. Of the Gnat that beg'd meat and Lodging of a Bee.
AGnat with cold and hunger in great danger,Beg'd with the Bees to be at rack and manger;Take me into your hives said he, and IWill teach your young ones curious melody,I am a Fidler. Bees this answer madeNot so, we'l teach our young ones our own tradeTo get their living, 'tis to us a riddleWho are concern'd to live, should meerly siddle.
Mor.
To childrens education this care giveSo bring them up, they may know how to live.
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