IO ySOPS FABLES. (i)Thisfancyofthe Muficians "is noted by Horinhis Satyrs, where he defcnbes and laughs at the humors and manners of men : Omnibus hoc vititim efi cantoribus, inter Vtytunquam inductnt animum ctttttre, nguti, Injufi nm^num defifttnU Sardus h- bib.tt lilt Tigellius hoc. Csefar ijui cogtre t*flet Si pittret per amicitUm putris , atque SzUlZZlt "fZficeret fi collihiQct, b As thou in Plumes, didft thou excel in voyce, 'T would Heaven and Earth re Joyce: Wouldft thou but chant onepleafing Lay Then be thou King of Birds, and Lord of May. Fair Crow intrcated, not refufe As crotcheting ^ Muficians ufe; - Sing, and let mounting Larks forfake the skie^ And let the emulating Lynnet dye, And M Swans no more tune their own Obiequie. Succeis wide doors to open Flattery gives; All this the Crow believes: Trying to reach no common Note, Down drops the Dainty in fly Reynard's throat; Who chops it up; then fleering laid: You haveiung well, and I have plaid My part not ill: All learned Doctors hold Chee/e for the voice far worler is than cold, Since once it turn'd a Syren to a Scold. When the Crow laid: I that robb'd Man,whole Plot Spoyls from the Eagle got; A Beaft hath cozen'd of no kfs A dainty now than my whole fecond mefs. What cannot glozing Flatterers do, When our own felvs we flatter too > Go fcorn'd of all, and take thy woful flight To di/mal Groves, there mix with Birds of night: Did thy own eyes believe the Crow is white ? Moral. Great is the power of Charms} but whatinchants More than bewitching tongues of Sycophants < Love} and the wealth of Kings, are in their power, And Gold not fooner takes the maiden Tower. When they are rnoft entreated to refufe, Unask d they'l ne'r give ore. This is Of fam'd Tigcllws, the Sardinian Should great ifepjhu.wh* might him Him of his own and Ctfa's kindnefs A Song defiring -t time he ftiould nv.f- fpend : Who when he lids, Io Bxcehe fine to th'end. (t)T4{4m*s notes that C]g**> King oiL<gnri*,i Prince much iddiftcd to Mufick , was transform'd into a Swan by Apollo, which Bird ever fir.ee was Mufical, entertaining its own death with Songs and rejoycings. Oviin his Epiftlei, Sic tiki f*U VOCAHt , dil abjtilns in Ad vnd* Miar.dri cencimt albas The dying Swan, adorn'd with Silver So in the ie'dges otMt*dtr lings. 'Tistrue that the Authori of Na CLiral Hiliorv P2ve lin'c credit to this ' I" 1 1 d- 1 " b fore death, ;s Ariftotlc, Pliny, and (he like and Altxtndtr Myndimi faies that he has attci Jed the death of feve-Ti of tncTtij yet never liCiird one mu fical Note. However, it being tlievul-gir notion, it ferv'd the I'oets to brau-tifie their Poefiewithll.iWfM/in hi> Fpigrami, Dnlci4Jtf,H} mciuUtur ctrmintl.n-Csnutor c1Ln*s fmarit iffi fi. "I he Swan lier (Wecteit Notei ling? ns file dies, Chief mourner a; ht r own fad Obfe- quici.