JESOFS FABLES. {&) iA:*cus in honour of his Mother ^i,*,having appropriated her name to the i (land where he rcign'd; Jum her Rival thereat much incens'd fent a!ai.ien-.aL!:I'c!:i!cnce>wlit!-cwitlit!ie Inhabitants were all deftroyd, except the Royal family: whereupon lyncusi efpying a multitude of Ants at the root of sn Oak , clc'ii! es as m;iiiy men irom Jupiter to fapply the number of thofe whom the Pefiilence had devour'd : who dreams And while She changes Poiibn for fweet Blood, Thou dying {halt in vain thy King and God Great Bel^ebub implore, who minds not thee, Nor pittying will thofe mighty Slaughters fee That Emperor makes, when he fo many days To kill Flys, of all other bufinefs lays. That thou art Phcebus of-fpring thou mai'ft pride, But (ay, What art thou by the Mothers fide > From Excrement, or Putrefa&ionfprung;, Foul Ordure brought thee forth.or Madam Dung. Though I inhabit Caves and narrow Gels, Yet mighty Kingdoms, and great Common-weals, Following examples of th'induftrious Ant^ Rile to their height; Who labourJhall not want. Thou that of Idlenefs and Impertinence The Embleme art, go, feek a fafe Defence, In the great Shambles, from the Butcher's Flap, That kils whole hundreds like a Thunder-clap. Go drown thy felf in Snuffs of Drowfy Ale, Or leave the orld,a Straw thruft through thy Tail; Compare with me ? Know., that the noble Ant, With ^ Myrmidons0 did once a Kingdom plant. mornin" provedtr Table at large, which in the e. OWre .the which la My dream 'liar !l.) ;>.nd Ki I , and beheld the Me refented: fuch in ever They falul their King. Jive prais'd , a party to the Town I bring ; Leave to the reft the empty fields; and Them MjrmidcHi of their original. This 1 (ibiC wfts invciiivd !;oni \" Inhabitants of that ifhnd.who to avoid the incurfions of their neighbours, dwelt in obfeure Caves under the Earth like Pifmires, who being af.cr. wirds extrcifed in Martial difcipiine by L&acKs, and perfuaded to cohabite in Cities, they were icipn'd to have been of Pifmires convei ted into Men. Moral. Short life and merry, give me Eafe, this crysy While that with Sweat and Care his Marrow drys : Thefe arc Exttemer; u^on the Medium fix ; Study, andToyl, with Recreation mix. Fab.