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.
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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.
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London :: Printed for T. Basset, R. Clavel, and R. Chiswel ...,
1675.
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Fables -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B01490.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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descriptionPage 16
Annotations on Fab. XVIII.
PAg. 56. l. 8. Though Bees boast Coelestial Race.] See Virg. Georg. lib. 4.
His quidam signis, atque haec exempla sequuti,Esse apibus partem divinae mentis, & haustusAethereos dixere, &c.
From these Examples, some there are maintain,That Bees derive from a Celestial strain,And Heavenly Race; they say the DeityIs mix'd through Earth, the Sea, and lofty Sky;Hence Men and Beasts, both wild and tame, derive,And whatsoe're by breathing Air survive:To this they after are dissolv'd, and thenThey reassume First Principles agen:Nor is there place for death; their Spirits flyTo the great Stars, and plant the lofty Sky.
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