FABLES. It muft not be. This faid, he wipes his Bill, As if that he had banqueted his fill, And Reynard then invites,with many thanks, To tafte a Dim brought from Caifters Banks, The Fox contents, nor did Believe the Crane to any thing would bid His Worfhip,unlefs Veal,or Lamb, or Kid. ( i) Tdntahs, a friend of the Gods, admitted to their counfels, was cart down into Hell for revealing of them ; where he hungers and thirfls in the midft of plenty. Homer Iliad. 11. Kai ii , Tzt-mKtv bVhAi- "' *)*' suffering^torridTmf A pleafant River clofe up to his Chin . Who thirfty, oft as he defir'd to drink. Dry Sands appear,and fuelling billows (hrink Beneath his Feet,forc'd by feme angry God; About his Head , Trees which rich Fruit did load, Pears, Apples, Figs, and Olives in a throng Their varioai kinds in dangling Clu- flers hung . Oft as th" old man ftrove one of them Th' appointed hour is kep't, and as he wifh'd Choice Gates he found, but in glafs Viols difh'd. This diving with his beak fweet Morfels picks, With watry Jaws dry Glafs Sir Reynard licks: Then (aid ; I have deierv'd With{t) Tantalising Banquets to be fterv'd, And am with trich^sfor trices moftjuftlyfervd. A Wind conceal'd, or blew o of his Whom Ovid follows lib 4. Mtttmn fhtf. Depr(ndnnturijHt, qutq antalns deceitful water flips ch'dat fruit avoids his touched By which the Antients fignificd how fatal a thing it was to difcover the fecrets of Princes. Moral. The mofi ingenious- Scoff's, and bitterft Taunts, Arc befl revenged with the lif^e Affronts : But many times from them fuch Rancor breeds, That he that langlSdatfirftJoon after bleeds.