JESOTS F ABIES. Fab. II. Of the Dog and Shadow. fwt HIS Dog away with a whole Shoulder ran, B Let thanks be to the carelcls Larder-Man, Which made the Proverb true: both large and good The Mutton was, no way but take the Flood ; His fellow-Spaniels waiting in the Hall, Nay Hounds, and Currs, in for a fliare would fall; Thofe Beggars, that like Plague and Famine fit Guarding the Gate, would eat both him and it; Shrewd were his doubts left Serving-Men might put In for their part, and ftrive for the firft cut: A thoufand real Dangers thus perfuade. As many more his nimble fancy made ; Faces about, ftraight at a Poftern-Gate He takes the Stream, and leaves the reft to Fate. 'Twas in the Dog-daies too, the Skies were cleer, Not one black-patch did in Heaven's face appear : Breathlefs the Sun left two and thirty Winds., And fuch the Calm as that the W Halcyon finds. When a refra&ed R ay, a golden Beam In the grofs Medium of the darker Stream Pencil'd an other Shoulder like to that The Dog had purchas'd, (('; but more large, and fat. To him who oft had fed from Beggars Caps, Shar'd in the Dole, and quarrell'd for fain Scraps, With twenty more for a gnawn bone would fiuhr^ A greedy W orm, a dogged Appetite Gave (ad advice, to ieize one Shoulder more. ( Some Mortals till tbey'r Rich are never Poor. ) Too rafli he bites: down to the deepcft Stream The Shadow and thcSubftance, like a Dream la) It is obfen 'd by the antienr Au-thours of Natural Hutory, that the Alqon ( or King fifTier) breeds a-bout the Winter Solftice, when the Seas are mo'l fmooth and calnr whence MpH ditsgrn aP.overb amongft them for ferene weather and the Poets ufeto attribute thecaufeof it to them : as ThtocriiHt in his Buco-lik The HMcyon fmctth flail th' Ocean, til. Ad calm t'htfe lluflerhrfrittJs that fia needs (hake. The Halcyc of all Bird, that haunt tht Is mrf 'ttlev'dtfthe Nereides. We cannot better give an account of thefe Birds then in ihe words of p.'irj who writes thus; nia Hslcyonum janm mr.r,a,Vnqm navigant,mvcre .-Fattficatit bruma, tjui dies Hxlcycmde: vecantur, fUiido mart per ets & uavi-gabili, Sicuh maxime^c. The very Seas, and they that fail thereon know when the Halcyons fit and breed They lay and fir about Mid-winter, when daies befhorreft, and ihe time whilft they are brooding is cali'd the Halcj-<m-die, : for during that feafon the Sea is calm and navigable efpecially on the Coaft o( siilf. |n other parts alfo the Sea is not fo boyfterons but more quiet then at other times! But fure the Sicilian <*a is very ecn-tje, both in the Streights, and alfo in the open Ocean. Now within feven da.es before Mid-winter they build andwuhin as many after they have' Obncit h-ic vdtit alt fyxram, Multo majertm frtd '", id r..idk, 'vifm diffurfit & no, i p<H velut infteculoqMC rc- Another Dog 'mi bears, Becsufe th' airs medium is more tt and bright, WiMih!n>che.vend ar.d ' l :-,;vs thefipht, r the fi n Mir l h W figure, as in Mirrors takes Which by refra&ional! things larger