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. 120. Of the Ass and the Raven.
A Gall-back'd Ass did in a meadow graze,To him a Raven came, his business wasHis sores not for to lick; but for to peck;The driver of the Ass gave him no checkFor doing so, but laugh'd as he look'd on;Wolf saw him, and did descant thereupon:Woe to poor wolves, said he, if you them take,Who of that Ass a laughing-stock do make:
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Though he be your own carrier and in pain,It shall go hard if ever I be ta'ne.
Mor.
Wise folks can spy great things in a small glass,If but a driver laugh at his poor Ass;Peckt by a Raven, and in misery,See, he'l do worse things to an enemy.
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