jESOPS FABLES. If pureft Bread, rich Cheefe, or mellow Fruit, That the whole Table eats without di/pute To great Kings Tafteris this little Brute; Encourag'd by the Lyon, thus reply'd Then let the Royal Virgin be my Bride, Nor wonder at my Sute; though I am fmall, My Mother was a (a) Mountain/ull as tall As high Olymftts, Jove's huge Council-Hall. Great was the Expe&ation at my Birth; When flying W Fame divulg'd our Mother Earth Swell'd with a Son,fhould give Heaven frefh alarms W^hat e'r my Limbs, me no leis Soul informs, Than bold Briareus with the hundred arms. The troubled King then to the Micean faid ; Son, dar'ft thou venture on the Horrid Maid ? See where fhe comes: attended from our Court, Pards, Leopards, Panthers, round about refbrt, Neer, her Delight, two wanton Jackcals fport. The Lyon then afide his Daughter took, And to prepare fweet Love, thus kindly fpoke ; From whom I Life and Freedom have, behold: Amongft our Kings his Name mail be enroll'd, One wife in Counfel, and in Battel bold. 27 U) Virgil hath left u description of Fame, tsi.net Fama mulurn quo nsr. !, ulium Motiliutevigctfliref^Htt, a; d c. in admirable -ftripi all mifchief in her by Which grews by motic flying, force Kept under firft by Fear, foon afte Kept uSder firft fhrowds, Stalking on Earth, her head amongfl the Clouds - V">d ,by the Gods, th' All-parent Earth brought forth This Sifler.laft of the Gigantick birth The huge foulMonfterfwifdy goes and So many plumes, as many Watching Lurk underneath; and, what more ftrang appears, So many Tongues, loud Moaths, and Liftning Ears. Then take this Jewel, honour him as Lord, And in thy Bofom warmeft feats afford. She then advancing with Majeftick Gate, Looking too high to view fo low a Mate, Trod on him unawares,and flew him ftreight. F 2 Then