FABLES. mi And though a heavy mortal was their load, King Oberon they ore hill and dale out-rode. Enter'd the Lifts, he lights, then mounted on A dapled Weefle the bold Micedon Appear'd (may we great things compare with fmall,) Like the World's Conqueror,though not fo tall. His Arms were not of Steel,nor Gold,nor Brals; Nor fweating(c) Cyclops turn'd the yeelding mafs With griping tongues, nor Bull-skin bellows rore To purge Ele&rum from the froathie Ore j But the black coat of a Weftphalia Swine, Long hung in fmoke, which now like Jet did mine. Fame fays, (andflie tels truth as oft as lyes ) The feafon d Gammon Miceans did furprize, Spoyl'd the red flefh before 'twas once ferv'd up After full boards,to relliiri a frefh cup: This their King's right, his Captains did prefent To him for Safety, and an Ornament j Such was black Mouflapha's habergeon: The ancient Hero's had but Sted upon The heads of cruel Spears; but this did weild A Lance, whofe body wras all over fteel'd; It was a Knitting-needle, ftrong and bright; His Helm a Thimble,daz'd th'Enemies fight, Ore which a thick fall'd Plume,wagg'd with each gale, Of Tiffany, gnawn from a Ladie's Veil; In it a Sprig which made his own afeard, ThejlijfMujlachios of a dead Cats Beard. His (olid Shield which he fo much did truft Was Bisket, though fomc write 'twas Manchet cruft. Hiftorians oft, as Poets,do miftake; But I affirm 'twas Bisket, for the Cake They all agree by Navigation, Four times was {eafon'd in the Torrid Zone. The (c) The cjebp, were the fons of Calm and Tel/,,relenkd by fttpiter out of Hell, and imploycd to forge his fearful Artillery, Thunderbolts, for him .- of whom thus Virgil, ^neid. 8. Firrttm cxircekant vtfto Cyclopes ?p?w, & nKius membra I'yracmon, His infermamm manikin jam furte The Cyclopi in vaft Caves their Anvils beat: Sttnpcs, Brontts, naked Pjr*cmm twat, In forging Thunder. The names of thefe three exprefs their faculties. Thunder, Lightning,