jESOFS FABLES. Fab. HI. Of the Lyon, and other Beafts. "^ST T"^T THen troops of Beams led by the grey- V/ V/ ey'd Dawn From Eaftern Ports rufh'd with recruited light, And beat up all the quarters of the Night; When Cynthia fled, with broken filence drawn, Her glory plunder'd,pale at the affright; When Acheron's jaws for routed W Spirits yawn, Dreams and fantaftick Vifions put to flight; When Stars diforder'd hid in ^ Sea-Nymphs beds, Or back to Heaven did jfhrink their golden heads: Then was the Lyon up, and all his Court, Prepar'd to hunt, from Woods and Defarts came Various wild Beafts/rom Fields and Cities tame. About his Palace throng a huge reiort, Becau/e the Royal EdicT: did proclaim There would be profit, Feafts, as well as Sport: Thus expectation heighten'ci was by Fame, The fcrong, fwift, cunning, all laid Nofe to ground, Should iliare alike with him of what they found. W irh 'c: tygrim,("' Bruine came, and all his Bears, Attending in the Pretence yet being dark j R am Bel in fare was there as in the Ark, {r) Key Hard was bufle with his Gins and Snares, Vv ell knowing all walks and outlets of the Park, {f> Tybert attends with Troops of Mountaineers, And Jejfry the Ape, well Hors'd, a gallant Spark. All forts of Dogs, mongft whom the Spaniel waits, For fliadows hoping now fubftantial Cates. C The (a) Thofewlio firft pretended to have converfe with GholU (thc* gjftUu, 1 conceive, vvlio believ'd the World to be full of Spirit!) chore the night as a Veil for [heir forgery, making this pretext, that the Sun was an Enemy to thokVmir* or dark ftiades This is evident in the fpeech of Anchi-fes, who as he appear'd to tenets at Night, ttrfrVEneidj. Et nox tnt plum bigii fubvtlU ttnt- Vifldehim coth facie 1 deUffn fMrintis ,'M-ihife, fubito tales (fnnderc voces. When Night's black Cha: iot had pof-IdVd the- Pole, edid behold Anehifcs foul Defending, which t< thefc impell'd f arxqHt v*U : tarqutt med'tos nox hi-. mMcurfxs, Et me [tvus equis Ontns effltvit anhe- Us. Down from tlieVertick point the moift Night fpeeds, And me the Sun drives hence with panting Steeds. Where he gives the Sm the Epithet of f*VHs,crueI, becaufe he would not permit his aboad on Earth any longer. (b). The more general opinion of the Ancients was (before the latter Navigations had demonftrated the Earth to be a Globe ) that the Superficies on which we liv'd was a plain,en-compafs'd on every fide with the main Ocean : whence at the fetting of the Sun in the mofr Weftern parti of the World, the Horizon being terminated in the Sea. the Poets deftnbed, that by the Suns defending into it, and its n-fing by its emergency out of it. So Homer defenbes the fetting of the Sun, JIMS. 'Hvf'imr 'Ouctv^ KafJ.iriit fa'- -! Mean while the SundiAittthe Oce.nftt His glorious beams, and Night's U(( and its riling, 0<///. 23. ,U M,m*t<tifu When frem the Ocean reft the golden Morn Bring ht light to Mtrt*ls,*tid did Earth Another opinion there was, that the Sun declining in a Cloud in the Weft return'd back ov;r the inhabitable pa: ts of the North and fo rofe acajn intheEaft. (O The Wolf. id) The Bear. it) The Fox. (/) The Cat