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. 53. Of the Collier and the Fuller.
THe Collier made a motion for to dwellWithin a Fullers house, he could not tellHow to consent, for why my Trade is whiteSaith he, thine black, differ like day and night:Black cloaths don't love white walls, nor white things black,Save only pepper which hath a good smack,
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And keeps its blackness to its self, thoul't stain;My cloaths, if near thee, will be black in grain.
Mor.
Dwell not with those that are quite contrary,For ten to one that you will ne're agree.
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