Æsop in select fables ... with A dialogue between Bow-steeple dragon and the Exchange grashoper.

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Title: Æsop in select fables ... with A dialogue between Bow-steeple dragon and the Exchange grashoper.
Publication: London :: Printed and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster,; 1698.
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MORAL.
So crys an Author who has spent his spleen,
What harm can silly Fables mean?
Or how can Faction takes its birth,
From a few Tales, and unprovoking Mirth?
They may perhaps delight,
But rest assur'd they'll never Fight,
The Beast I-treat of cannot Plot
Or traffick in Sedition: what of that?
When if he rail'd like O—ts, like S— Fought,
Curs'd like a Man at Sam's, like M— thought,
All join'd together ne'er was able
To show the malice of one single Fable.