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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Title: 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.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ...,; 1673.
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Subject terms: Fables.
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FAB. 21. Of the man and the wooden God.

ONe had a wooden God to whom he pray'd
For gold and silver, as he wanted aid;
To him the more he pray'd, the less he had,
That made the man become stark staring mad.
He took his God by th•• heels swong him about,
Threw him against the stones, dasht his brains out:
And this he had to recompence his pains,
Bursting his seull, there he found gold for brains.

Mor.

Whoso to wooden Gods do pray, speed worse, He rather shall be bless'd who such doth curse.