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. XI.

PAg. 32. l. 6. When Bulls spurr'd on.] See Virg. Georg. lib. 3.

Atque ideo Tauros procul, atque in sola relegant Pascua posi montem oppositum, & trans flumina lata Aut intus clausos satura ad praesepia servant. Carpit enim vires paulatim, uritque videndo Faemina—

Far off the Bulls alone are feeding ty'd, Behind a Mountain, or beyond some Flood, Shut up at plenteous Stalls with pleasant Food: For seeing of the Female wastes their Strength, Who burning, mind not Grass, nor Groves, at length; She with her sweet Inticements oft provokes Proud Rivals, till their Fury turns to Strokes. In pleasant Groves the Beauteous Heifer feeds; But they joyn Battel, and in War-like Deeds Gain many Wounds; their Fodies bath'd in Gore, Closing their Horns, most dreadfully they rore; The mighty Woods & Heavens vast Court resound. No more these Warriors Pasture in one Ground; Exil'd to Coasts unknown the Vanquith'd goes, Moaning his shame, & the proud Conqueror's blows, That unreveng'd from him his Love was took, Viewing his Stalls, and Native Realms forsook.

Then carefully recruits his Force, being laid On a hard Rock, a Bed but roughly made, Feeds on harsh Leaves, and brisly Carix eats; His Horns then exercising, Anger whets Against a Tree, venting on th' Air his spite, Scattering the Sand, as Prologue to the Fight. His Force recruited, on the Foe he sets, And boldly up his careless Quarters beats. As when at Sea the mustred Waves grow white, And rolling from the Ocean gather height; And now at Land 'gainst Rocks they strangely roar, Nor less than Mountains break upon the Shore; The deep Floods boyl, whirl'd with the foaming Tide, And working, cast up Sand on ev'ry side.

See Virgil, Aeneid. lib. 12.

Cùm duo conversis inimica praelia Tauri Frontibus incurrunt, pavidi cessere magistri, Stat peous omne metu mutum, mussantque Juvencae, Quis pecori imperitet, quem tota armenta sequantur; Illi inter sese multa vi vulnera miscent, Cornuáque obnixi infigunt; & sanguine largo Colla armosque lavant; gemitu nemus omne remugit.

So when from Syla, or Taburnus, we Two Bulls engag'd in bloody Battel see, Their frighted Owners fly; silent with fear The Cattel stand, the Heifers doubtful are Who shall Command, whom must the Herd obey: They gore each other in the dreadful Fray,

Till Streams of Blood their Necks and Shoulders drownd, And echoing Woods the Bellowers Cries resound.

P. 33. l. 25. Bitten by a Gad.] A kind of Fly that texeth Beasts, nam'd by the Greeks Oestron, which hath ••ts signification and derivation from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, to be mad, ••ecause it makes them furious. See Virg. Georg. ••ib. 3.

Est lucos Silaricirca, ilicibúsque virentem Plurimus Alburnum volitans, cui nomen Asilo Romanum est; Oestrum Grati vertére vocantes: Asper, acerba sonans, quo tota exterita silvis Diffugiunt armenta, &c.

A Fly about the Groves of Silarus haunts, And high Alburnus, green with stately Plants, Asilus call'd by Romans, but the same The Greeks stile Oestron, by an ancient Name; Extremely fierce and loud: whose spite to shun, To sheltring Woods affrighted Cattel run, And with their Bellowings strike Heavens arched Round, Which Groves, and shallow Tanagrus resound. With this dire Monster Juno long ago Her spite did on th' Inachian Heifer show: This, for it rages in the scorching heat, Thou must with care from teeming Cattel beat, And seeding Herds, both when the Sun shall rise, Or Night with glorious Stars adorn the Skies.