jRSOTS FABLES. Sufpecrjng plots, his Bell wife Beline rung, When troops of Rams to guard hisperfon throng. Then /aid; Your bufinefs Sir ? Be brief, and know, It mult be lawful, that I grant a foe. When with dejected Look thus Ifgrim fpake; A Bone (licks crofs my throat, fomepity take, And draw it forth j and when the filverMoon Makes low-brow\ Night faintly refemble Noon, The Goddeis I'll befeech, you never may Want Grafs in Summer, nor in Winter Hay, No floods in Autumn, nodeftrudive Cold Send Scabs,nor Rots depopulate your Fold. And She wiJl hearken to our pious Race. Oft when She fwounds,and notes of ^ Tinkling-Brafs Cannot recall, nor colour her pale lips, Our cries have refcu'd from a dark Eciipfe. Then Beline laid , Impudent Wolf be gone ; Who knows, but late thou haft fomeMurther done, And this a Judgment.due to thy defert ? On pain of death our Quarters leave, depart. Thus to the fliaggy Goat, he did complain, To the fwift Dear, and the dull Oxe in vain ; They all refufe, and fay, no punifliment , On ravening Wolves can be unj uftly lent. &e ^~i$^m^ When f talking through the Marili he meets the Crane ttcSS^p^Sb r ,, i , ,~'l wMKotMuximmTMriHenfis (Low-Country people tyoiv no God but gam J To whom the Wolfthnce Congeeing began : May your plump Phalanx pafs the Ocean, To Southern Regions fife, and landing there, May all the ^ Pigmy Kingdoms make with fear. (*) The vulgar people among the antients being ignorant of the natural caufesof the Echpfes of the Moon behev'd that flic fuffer'd at that timi under the power of Magical charms, which they thought was remedied by the tinkling of Brafi and ringing of Beli found of Trumpets, and the like , ot which we have a memorable ftory in Tacitus, fpeaking of thefedition of the PanmnUn Legions againfl: Tiberius the Emperour. Ncaemm>H*cem#in fcelus erupt*, ram fm /,;,>. Nam Luna cUfo re_ fente code vifa Ungueftere. Id mile, r*Homs ig**rus,omtn premium acce-ptKfH.sldoribus JffiOi^em Sideris tffimUm pnfpere^e cftr* ?a, fer. gerent ft fulgor& darnud. De* red. demur. Uitur tris fom , tubltrilm cornKiirnqne concentuflrepere&c. Chame fitted the night thtt threatned SedMM: for in a clear night the Moon *s[eentoUnguip,. The Souldier beint 'f*>rAHtr.ftbere*[on,fit, thm?ht it to bennOmenofthel refmJ. , thdArkpefscftbePUnHt, their troubles, and its falgou, una clear efs to their fnccefs. wherefore h th'e tiding of BrMfs,the found of Trumpets ofCortet.thejnadeanoife-sndJor-fl'th*twe*rdmire(plendidorob-Jcnre to rejojee or mourn. AndMen that 1ft wandered, b, the intervening. cloud,,and they thought the Moon to be involved in darknefs (as men, minds one, ) they c,m. plain tbdt their eter, >fied,And that the the>r undertaking. Nay Plutarch ja the life ofPericle, faies, that the Athenians werefo fu->ns in this particular, that they :nem alive who pretended to K..V a natural reafon of the Eciipfe of the Moon. This fuperftitioncontinued ;n among " Ho- i;:: (*, The Craaes defert Thr. Winter, declining the piercing c. that Climate, when making
