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-&SOPS FABLES. Who, while the Clock ftruck Twelve, did run a Mile, And fliakes with thund'ring Hoofs the rotten Soil. And now the day was come, the hour drew on, When (even Steeds, fwift as...
Show more -&SOPS FABLES. Who, while the Clock ftruck Twelve, did run a Mile, And fliakes with thund'ring Hoofs the rotten Soil. And now the day was come, the hour drew on, When (even Steeds, fwift as thofedrcvv Phaeton, Were match'd to run for a huge Golden Bowl; Which,crown'd with Wine,muft glad his Mailer's foul That wins the Cup. Dafle fo well was known On his fide all would Bet, but 'gainft him, none. To the firft Poft they came, Jochps were weigh'd, Great Cracks on each fide were^and Wagers laid. The Signal's given, at once fevcn Champions ftart, i/,, Now Spurjnow Switch,Hank,Loofe,no little Art Their Riders fhew : Low as theirHorfer Ear Bending their Heads, they break refilling Air. The Earth with Hoofs, the Skies with Clamors rore, While Voices tumbled eccho on the Shore. But as Swift Dafle far did all out-ftrip, Ah dire Miichance! he ftrain'd and fhot his Hip; ' Thus fhaken out, he and his Rider droop, While in a duffy Cloud on goes the Troop. Here our f<xd Tale begins,This Steed unfit To run the Race, or with a burnifh'dBit To bear his wealthy Lord with Proud fhort Steps, Difgrace for all his former Service reaps: They take from him his Trappings, Silk, and Gold, And to a cruel Car-man he is fold, Labour'd all Day,and fed at Night with Grains^ He Dreams of Loads, fteep HiJ%a|id' narrow Lanes. With's Cart at's Back, weary and ill Arrai'd"; ; The Afs elpi'd him,an,d thus vapp.uring Brai'd j ' v, A Sir, I'm miftakenif I did nof-meet v , : ; Your Horf-iliip lately in.^his, vy^iqdingStj-eqt^: -.-.,: \ \ But you'r much alter'd in a little time, You'r lean, and poor, then fat,and in your prime; N 2 Where's
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Where's all the gallant Furniture you had ? How ruftily you look in Leather clad ? Nor your fbft Neck bends proudly in a Trot, With Ladies in a Belgick Chariot, Bounding on Velvet Beds; nor I...
Show more Where's all the gallant Furniture you had ? How ruftily you look in Leather clad ? Nor your fbft Neck bends proudly in a Trot, With Ladies in a Belgick Chariot, Bounding on Velvet Beds; nor I difcern No golden Scutcheons,on your gilded Stern; Your Wheels not thunder,nor your Axes flame; This is a Cart ; you draw as if you'r lame. Thus are proud Mortals paid, and them that fyiow No Mean in Blifs^Jball have no Mean of Woe ; And this fhall be the greateft Gall to Pride, W^hom they fcorn'd rich,grown poor,fhall them deride. Moral. Let no Profterity move Arrogance; Lity April are the fickle Brows of Chance : But when foe moft feemsfor theey then provide With Caution to allay dr-fwelling Pride. Fab.
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Fab. XXXVI. Of the Husbandman and the Wood. NEer a vail: Commons, was a mighty Grove, Protected by the(<) Hama-dryades, Which then had Manfion in thofe long-liv'd Trees; There flouriOi'd &...
Show more Fab. XXXVI. Of the Husbandman and the Wood. NEer a vail: Commons, was a mighty Grove, Protected by the(<) Hama-dryades, Which then had Manfion in thofe long-liv'd Trees; There flouriOi'd < Efcuks the Delight of Jove, And PbtbkfW LoVe; And there were Plants had Senfe, and feme could feed, And fruitful Palms did Male and Female breed ; Wool-bearing Stocks grew there,and fome of old Whofe Leaves were Spangles,and the Branches Gold; In aged Trees InduilriousBees Built FortrefTes, And did their waxen Kingdoms frame, And fbme, they fame, (came. From whofe hard Womb Man's knotty Of-lpring This wealthy Grove, the Royal Cedar grac'd, Whofe Head was fix'd among the wandring Stars, Above loud Meteors arid Elements Wars, His Root in th' Adamantine Centre fall:; This all furpaft Crown'd Libanus ; about him Elmy Peers, Ajh, Fir, md Pine /had flourilh'd many years, By him prote&ed both from Heat and Cold. Eternal Plants, at leaft ten Ages old, All of one mind, Their ftrength conioyn'd, And icorn'd the Wind: Here ni, (liven.and The laft of which we e ot HomtdrjMiis; andthefewere lieved to live and die with the T in their protection, according to A ianis hit j njferedfor hit Sire who aurft prt- vtke The Dryades ij cutting isun their Ok'. The Njmfh full (ft fetitim'd him with To fpgrt her Trie if equal bWth and JlUrt ; Since both their livtt didflwriji in that bole. But mi intre&ts could his r*fb youth central; fVh he-vs it dMn.The Njmfb riveng'd her Fall, T him and to his Ijfue tragical. (b) Plinj in his Natural Hiftory, lib.ra. c. I. Arborumgenera Nmii-bus fuis dicnto perfetm fervantur, nt Jovi EIchIms , Apollini Lauras , Mi-nenrac Olea, Veneri Mjrtus, Herculi Pefulus. The Ceremony of dedicating this and that kind of Tree to feveral Gods vtat nlwaiesobferved ; for the Ef-culus is ccnficrated to Jupiter, the Lv-rel to Apollo , the Olive-tree to Minerva, the Myrtle to Venus , ani the /-plar to Hercules. (0 The Laurel.
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JliSOTS FABLES. (d) M DtubtiA in Etirus w-s the molt ancient and famous Oracle of fi-fitrr. The Story of it is thus related by' Helens, the antiemelr of the Grttk Hifioriant, whofeems to ha...
Show more JliSOTS FABLES. (d) M DtubtiA in Etirus w-s the molt ancient and famous Oracle of fi-fitrr. The Story of it is thus related by' Helens, the antiemelr of the Grttk Hifioriant, whofeems to have b;tn irq;:ifitivc after the original of it. (he Pneflsof 7*^><-r, ztThtbe, a City in Efjft, told me that the Phe-mei.-.ns hnfilonaway formerly two Oftl.ai [Vieflefles, & fold one of them into Litjn,the other into Crtt. f,which Women firft conftituted.anhey under. Rood,Oracles in ihofe places. But the PrielUflVs ac Didona fay , that tliere flew two bbek Pigeons from Th. bes of Eipt ; the one into Libya, the other to il.rm, uhuh lighting on an Oak, faid with a humane voice, that there ought to be an Oracle of Jupiter there. '! :>ey, (iippo!;ng itto be a Divine com-nur.d, u>'d one to be built there. The reft of the Doimtans agreed with them in their i elation. My opinion of them, flits t-hrcdotHi , is this; If it be true tb f/fcPhenicuns ctrritd aV/ay theft w/o Libya, the ctbtr into Hellas itfecms t? me th.it tbisvomM-nxuftld to the Ihcfp:-o:ians in tfoCountnj how lal-W Hellas, ^ffcrt Pelafgia, wbire during kr SUvtrj fhe cenftcrated the fUi. i mtr x neighbourinr O.ik., it being rnbMt llut fluluv.ng ho,operated to Jup:ter, Egypt "wcMnuhthe minor] of him ben Not* thefe m-n>, vert etll'd bj the Dodoneans mmxJ'H Pigeons , facasfe nfin o unknown Language, thtjfeem'd totally like Buds, tuttlutlbii f'er White fpk_? mthah^m^e voice, baaufe Jbi by cojtverfation hid lurn'd the Greek. T',**:<e ; when th;] fa] the Piytu was ,tby t-gmfiethttthefromtnwts .- I gypiian. The Oracle nt Thebes i pyi'r, .>,./ th.:tm Dodona art very lk h J Here highly honour'd flood the facred Whom Swains invoke^ Which Oracles^ like that of W Dodony /poke. But in the neighbouring Commons dwelt a Swain That to his Hatchet long did want a Heft; Which only was the R oyal Cedars Gift: When to the under Cops (that did complain Their Soveraign A Tyrant was) he fu'd., they promis'd Aid : No Helve of Brier} or Thorn,ivas ever made. Some rotten-hearted Elms, and Wooden Peers, R un wiffi the Stream, fpurr'd up by Hopes or Fears; Avarice, Pride, Make others fide; Hoping more wide, Some mighty Trees remov'd, they in their ftead Branches might /pread From Sea to Sea, and raife to Heaven their Head. Then to theCedar he his Sute prcfents, About whom round his whifpering Counfel grows; Hot they debate^ fome fide,and fbme oppofe,' Whenj but unwilling, the fore'd King consents, And loon repents : Arm'd by his Gift, Trees fall in Ranks and Files, Friends, Foes, in Stacks to Heaven the Ruftick piles; Then hollow Vines firft cut with Sails unfurl'd Lines, that, like Nets, are drawn about the World; Great Trees and /mall Together fall, He ruins all: But fir/I the Grove told Oracles expires, And all their Quires, Enough t* have made twelve Cafars Funeral Fires. At
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uSOPS FABLES. At Lift the Shepherd Handing on a Hill, Beheld the Havock his own Hands had made. And with a deep fetcht Sigh, thus weeping faid ; Where is the Mad, and Akorns that did fill My...
Show more uSOPS FABLES. At Lift the Shepherd Handing on a Hill, Beheld the Havock his own Hands had made. And with a deep fetcht Sigh, thus weeping faid ; Where is the Mad, and Akorns that did fill My brifly Cattelftill? Ill-gotten Wealthy ah me ! is ill imploy'd., And I am poorer the whole Wood deftroy'd. Where fhall my Kids browfe ? How fhall I maintain My board with Nuts, and blufhing Fruit again ? Thus Avarice brings People, and Kings, Their ruinings. Thus Grants of Princes have themfeivs brought low, And oft o'r-throw Them, by their Fall on whom they did beftow. Moral. ions put into a mad Mans Hands3 May be tbefirft the Error underjiands: But Kings that Subje&s with their S&ordintrujl, If they dofitfer}feems not much nnjufi. Fab.
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