12 FABLES. U) Hercules, being about i<5 or 18 years of age, (lew the Ncmtanlyon, (whofe skin ?had caufedtobe impenetrable, intending thereby the de-ftru<5tion of Hireults)wd bore it ever after for his Target. Euripides in his Upon your head you put the Lyon's Which both his Cask, Back-piece, and Breft-platewis. Whence we feldom fee of Htrcnlis without it. ny Statue (*) A river of LjdU that had fo any windings and turnings, that it became a proverb among the Cm cmxt, all obliquities being called by them --. M; The Arms he wore once were a water-Snake's, Which in the battel, when the fprings and lakes Decided were, a Conqueror he brought From the deep floods, with gold and purple wrought; Ore thefe a water-R at's black Fur he caft., Dreadful with teeth and claws. Thus, as he paft The Vulgar fliout to fee their fix-inch'd King Like great Alcider in his(<) Lyons skin. A whole houfe arm'd his head, had been a Snail's: Though Eftridg Plumes it wants, and Peacocks Tails, Yet every colour the great R ain-bow dies, Shone on his creft,the wings of Butter-flies, Sent him of old a prefent from Queen Mab. His Targe the fhell of a deferred Crab, Where in the Throgian tongue this verfe was writ; The Manlike fwinmiing King unvanqnijh'dyet. Six fprightly Toadfoles his ruHi Javelins bore; His Sword, a (harp long two edg'd Flag,he wore Girt to his thigh, a wand'ring Snail the Hilt With a bright varnifli in (t) Meanders gilt. Appointed thus,about the Lifts he rid, While all admire the Champion's Arms and Steed. Soon as the pleas'd fpe&ators fetled were, Glad Acclamations melting into Air, Voices were heard through ecchoing valleys ring;, Th'approach foretelling of the Micean King. A fubdu'd Moufe-trap,his Sedan in peace, His Chariot now, from Man's high Palaces Mouflapha brought: Ne'r through the fcorching plain Did fweating Kings draw fuch a Tamberlain: Six Princes, captive Ferrets, through deep trails Fearing the lafli,oft fir'd his rhundring ax : And