to The Cat. FABLES. Fab. X. Of the fame Lyon and Moufe. ^~"^Hen to the Mou/e he fpake, though Kings requite Their Saviors oft with Steel, or Aconite; Yet I, Magnanimous Mkean, fince I'm free., And had this great Deliverance from thee., Shall (if our Kingdoms have it} Grateful be. I know the Frogians, now a Popular State, By various Chance of War, and long Debate, Have driv'n your race to fenced Towns,and Tow'rs, W^here cruel W Tyberty in Nights di/mal Hours, Many a harmle/s Moufcovite devours. But Noble Catus boafts his Stock from Us, For of our Species is Ma;eftick Puff. I'll ufe my Pow'r firm Peace from him to gain, And by the Eagle's means from Jove obtain A Stork, that fhall or Croaking Frogians reign. But more than this, by that Cceleitial Sign ( Which gilds the Corn, purples the Plumper Vine) The Lyon call'd, by wife Aftronomers, What's mine is thine; Ask then: In Peace and Wars Be aJ/b one of our Prime Counfellors. Th' ambitious Mou/e; who choo/tth (till the Beft, For where his Phang Tooth hath a Seal impreft, I