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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Annotations on Fab. V.

PAg. 13. l. 5. Republick Stork.] Storks are observ'd to breed onely in Republicks, as Venice, Switzer∣land, Geneva, Helvetia, and the Low Countries.

Ibid. l. 15. To a Swan.] Swans are Birds-Royal, and so the King's Game.

P. 14. l. ult. A Ballad-gagling Goose.] Alluding to a foolish Poet, nam'd Anser, an Emulator of Virgil, whom Servius takes notice of in Eclog 7. and again in Eclog 9. thus he writes;

Argutos Anser strepit inter olores.
— The Goose 'mongst warbling Swans appears.

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and affirms, that he wrote the Acts of Anthony; and therefore the more maligned by our Author.

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