io8 JZSOFS FABLES. Then laid ; I better had endur'd the pain Of one (harp Sting, than thus to fuffer all j Making a private Quarrel National. (*) The infolence of the Ptrfian Emperour, here alluded to, in hij Ex-prditionagainft Greece,we fiiall deliver in the words of Herodotus , who liv'd though but a child, at the fame time ; From Abydus to the appetite Comment is a Streigk of only five. Furlongs ever-, -which when Xerxes had caus'd a Bridge to be laid, a violent Tempefl mtfmUe* defiro/d it : vhich ahen he heard, highly incem'd, he commanded that they jhouldinflitt three hundred firifes an the Hellefpont, And drop 4 couple of Chains into the bottom .mmdb*rb*ns nords, o bitter and Have oft by Wars Experience grown Wife: fait Water, Thy mafter ivflitts thU /- J J X & J njrThm% bZ"fZhokJtj'a% ^^0 ^ jpbifd the Sea, and threatned Floods to chain, Si fa^JX/:" Brought bacfor Millions but a/lender Train. Thus he commanded thtmtt punifb the Sea, and to ftrikt off the Heads of the _, Ovtrfem>ftbemr{. IAB. Moral. Great Kings Jhat petty Princes did defpife,