Æsopicks: or, A second collection of fables, paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. / By John Ogilby, esq; his Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of revels in the kingdom of Ireland.

Annotations on Fab. XII.

PAg. 37. l. 8. The Day of Doom.] Which Story is Germany is at large set down in that Treatise con∣cerning the Lutherian War. Sleiden. Ibid. l. 15. When thus the King.] See Virg. Aeneii. lib. 4.

Ac veluti ingentem formicae farris acervun: Cum populant, hyemis memores, lectoque reponunt, Est nigrum campis agmen, praedámque per herbas Convectant calle augusto; pars agmina cogunt, Castigantque moras: opere omnis semita fervet.

So chearful Ants plundring a Heap of Wheat, And minding Winter, to their Granges get; The black Bands march, a Convoy guards the Spoil Through narrow Tracts, some with joyn'd Forces toil To bear one ponderous Grain, whilst others beat The tardy Troops; all Paths with Labor heat.

Ibid. l. 22. Alcinous Fruit.] See Virg. Georg. lib. 2.