FAB. LIX. The Mole and her Daughter.
S Ay's a Mole to her dam, I've cause to thank a sence
That brings thrô my Nose a smell o' frankincence;
A little while after she cries out, alass
What a noise do I hear of hammering brass!
Æsop naturaliz'd and expos'd to the publick view in his own shape and dress by way of essay on a hundred fables.
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- Æsop naturaliz'd and expos'd to the publick view in his own shape and dress by way of essay on a hundred fables.
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- Cambridge [England] :: Printed by John Hayes for Edward Hall ...
- 1697.
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- Fables.
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Page 66
A third time she boasts she cou'd with her dimn eye
Perceive at a very great distance a chimney:
Good Child saies the mother e'ne prattle no more,
Two fences You want we ne're heard of before.
MORAL.
GRent Boasters their palpable follies reveal,
Which they by their silonce might safely conceal.