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. 61. Of the flea and the man.
A Skip Jack Flea bit a mans foot so hardHe downright angry was with him, amar'd,Crush thee, I that I will, betwixt my nailsSaid he, he did but say so, for he failsOf doing as he said, Monsieur-le-frisk,That nimble youth for's worship was too brisk,After a fierce assault made his escape,Whilst th' bitter man did for his ruine gape:A foolish man cry'd out O Hercules!Wouldst thou not with thy club keep off the fleas?
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Wouldst thou stand by and not do me that right?What serves thy Club for if that fleas may bite?
Mor.
The Gods concern themselves (for so they pl••ase)In smallest matters, e'ne as small as fleas;What they will doe, and what we may is ods,For flea-bites we may not invoke the Gods.
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