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A26524	Mythologia ethica, or, Three centuries of Æsopian fables in English prose done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and all other eminent authors on this subject : illustrated with moral, philosophical, and political precepts : also with aphorisms and proverbs in several languages, and adorned with many curious sculptures cut on copper plates / by Philip Ayres, Esq.	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.; Aesop.	1689 (1689)	Wing A731; ESTC R28929	146,643	364

seeing his own Folly he left the care of Governing all future Seasons to Iupiter wisely contenting himself with what Weather soever happened and all his Husbandry succeeded well and prosperously with him So should every one of us have our Trust and Confidence in him who is the wise Disposer of all things and not be continually troubling him with all our impertinent Requests for he who knows our wants better than we our selves do if we use an honest Industry will in his due time give us a convenient supply of whatever is necessary for us The End of the Third Century of Fables The TABLE 1 THE Quarrels of the Members and the Stomach 2 The Swallow and the Crow 3 The Carter and the Horse 4 The Master and his Dogs 5 The Country-man at the Olympic Games 6 The Stag and the Oxen. 7 The Ape and the Fox 8 The Ape and the Dolphin 8 The Halcion or King-fisher 10 The Sow and the Bitch 11 The Wolf the Fox and the Ape 12 The two Frogs that were Neighbours 13 The Oak and the Elm. 14 The Horse and the Ass. 15 Mercury and the Statuary 16 The Apes Head. 17 The Swan and the Cook. 18 Aesop at Play. 19 The Dragon the Country-man and the Fox 20 The Flies and the Honey 21 The Quarrelsom Young Man and his Father 22 The Liberal Man and the Thieves 23 The Dog that wrongfully accused a Sheep 24 The Geese and the Cranes 25 The Hart Drinking at the Fountain 26 The Country-man and Fortune 27 The Asses Shadow 28 The VVolf the Fox and the Shepherd 29 The poor Man that lost his Daughters Portion 30 The Basilisk and the VVeasel 31 Cybeles Priests and the Asse 32 Phoebus Boreas and the Traveller 33 The House Dog and the Hunting Dog. 34 The Moor or Aethiopian 35 A true History happened in Augustus's time 36 The Wasps the Patridges and Husband-man 37 The Serpent and the Crab. 38 The Country-man and the Stork 39 The Hog and the Fox 40 The Drunkard and his Wife 41 The Cat and the Cock. 42 The Gardiner and his Dog. 43 The Bear and the Fox 44 The Oxen and the Axletree 45 The King and his Fabulist 46 The Dog the Ass and the Wolf. 47 The Wolf and the Woman 48 The Kid and the Wolf. 49 The Gods and Momus 50 The Devout Seaman in a Storm 51 The Peach-tree and the Apple-tree 52 The Young Mole and its Dam. 53 The She Goat and the Wolfs Whelp 54 The Old Man and the three Cheats 55 The Lion the VVolf and the Fox 56 The Vipers and the Fox 57 The Monkey the Cat and the Chestnuts 58 The unjust Governour forced to refund 59 The Fox the Cock and the Dogs 60 The VVeasle and the Man. 61 Mercury and Tiresias the Diviner 62 The Lion and the Bear. 63 The Swallow and the Nightingal 64 The River Fish and the Sea-Calf 65 The Fight betwixt the Birds and Beasts 66 The Estridge 67 The Ape and her Young. 68 The Fishers 69 The Archer and the Bear. 70 The Horse and the Wolf. 71 The Hen that laid Golden Eggs. 72 The Thief and the Hang-man 73 The Thrush and the Swallow 74 The young Mouse the Cat and the Cock. 75 The Tanner and the Hunter 76 The Man that would count the Waves of the Sea. 77 The Asse the Ape and the Mole 78 The Fowler and the Lark 79 The mad Lion and the Goat 80 The Eagle and the Crow 81 The Old Horse 82 The unskilful Physitian affronted 83 The Fox and the Country-man 84 The VVolf and the Crane 85 The Hedg-hog and the Viper 86 The Man and Fortune 87 The Lyon and the Frogs 88 The Peacock and the Soldier 89 The Man that hid his Treasure 90 The Old Man his Son and his Grand-son 91 The Parrat and the other Birds 92 The Ant and the Grass-hopper 93 The Goat and the Bull. 94 The Lyon and the Elephant 95 The Peacock and the Crane 96 The Lyon and the Country-man 97 The Asse that had three Masters 98 The Country-man and his Son. 99 The Wolf and the Horse 100 The Husband-man and Jupiter FINIS Books Printed for and are to be Sold by Thomas Howkins in George-yard in Lumbard-street FOur Books of Iohannes Segerus Weidenfield Concerning the Secrets of the Adepts or the use of Lully's Spirit of Wine Quarto Holwell's Key to the whole Art of Dyaling in Quarto His Trigonometry fitted to the meanest capacity in Octavo Dr. Everard's Works in Octavo Mandy's Marrow of Measuring Illustrated with Copper Plates in Octavo The Rational way of Teaching Being a compleat Spelling Book by Thomas Osborne in Octavo The Artless Mid-night Thoughts the Third Edition with great Enlargements by Sir William Killigrew in Octavo Mather's Young Mans Companion or a very Useful Manual for Youth in Twelves The Pens most Easie and Exact Improvement Teaching to Spell Read and Write true English in a most compendious Method in Quarto price sticht 1 s. 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These Arabians Translated Aesop's Fables into their own Language by whose Pattern they also composed divers others And that Locman so famous over all the Eastern Countries is by many supposed to be no other than Aesop whose Fables these People collected into one large Volume adding many of their own to them and they valued themselves very much upon their knowledg of them because in one Chapter which for that reason is inscribed to the name of Locman the Alcoran does highly extol his Wisdom The Lives of all the Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles of this Nation are full of such Fables And they have amongst them a certain Sect of Philosophers who that they may lay down their Precepts to the Capacity of the Common People do them under the familiar way of Fables The Persians were not at all behind-hand with the Arabians in this pleasant Art of lying altho' none more detest a lye in their Civil Conversation than they nor more reproved their Children for it Yet 't is a wonder to think how much they were pleased with a Lye if such Inventions or Figments may be called so in their Books of Morality and for the Propagation of their Learning Witness the Fabulous Exploits of their great Law-giver Zoroaster and Aesops Fables were so delightful to their Pallats that they boasted the Author of them was their Country-man Now he being the same Person with Locman in the Alcoran so much reverenced by all the People of the East they endeavoured to take from Phrygia the Honour of his having been Born there and establish it among themselves And whereas some Arabians would make his Descent to have been from the Hebrews the Persians deny it and affirm him rather an Aethiopian which the Etymology of his Name seems to confirm but that he lived at Cassuvium which City many suppose to have been the ancient Arsacia in Media Hence some Criticks in History when they compared Locmans Life written by Mircondus with Aesops done by Maximus Planudes find them to have a great resemblance For as the Angels bestow Wisdom on Locman in his Author Marcondus so do these Criticks observe Mercury to impart Fable to Aesop in his Authors Philostratus and Planudes Which brought into their minds that the Greeks might have taken this Locman from the Eastern Nations and so from him feigned as I may say their Aesop. But I shall leave this Controversie knowing the Grecians as well as the Eastern People are too much addicted to mix Inventions with their History and Chronology Yet to the first is attributed the greatest credit of Faith and Industry For the likeness which the Locman of Mircondus has with the Aesop of Planudes and Philostratus does not any more make Locman to be Aesop than Aesop to be Locman The Persians honoured Locman with the Sirname of Wise and so is Aesop always ranked in the number of the Wise. They report of him that he found out the most abstruse Secrets of Physick and had such profound skill therein that he could even raise men from the Dead His Fables were so illustrated and enlarged with such Variety of Expositions that the Arabians made out of them that great Volume which is now to be seen at Rome in the Vatican Library His fame was spread abroad overall Aegypt and Aethiopia where his Name and Learning was had in so great Veneration that many have supposed him to have been born there Nor do the Turks less honour him at this Day Mircondus and the Arabians make him to have lived in the Reign of King David so that if this be supposed the true Aesop and any credit be given to the Greek Chronologers those Eastern Writers have mistaken no less than four hundred and fifty years which is no unusual thing with them But by this computation the Character of Locman might more properly agree with Hesiod who flourished in Solomons time and who as Quintilian and Plutarch affirm was the first that might boast he laid down the Designs of those Fables whose Inventions were attributed to Aesop. This Name of Locman for his admirable book of Fables is so renowned that it has reached even into India where he is celebrated in their Songs and by them said to be the brother of Ram or Ramus their excellent Law-giver whom they adore as a Deity Which Ram is reported to have been a very Holy Person a great Warrior and a most powerful King reigning in the Northern parts of India The Americans also are said to be great Lovers of Fables and to reward those who can relate them being much delighted to hear of Dogs Horses and other Creatures talking together But I shall forbear at present any further discourse of Aesop intending speedily to publish his Life at large with another Volume of Fables already prepared for the Press if these answer my Booksellers expectation Yet I must acquaint my Reader that these run not according to the common method of the Greek or Latin Fables used in Schools for being a mixture of divers Authors which I englished out of several Languages I have Polished and Methodized them to my own fancy calling them Aesopian from the Resemblance the rest have to his Not that Aesop as some have imagined was the first Inventor of these Apologues or Moral Fables for Homer Hesiod and Archilochus were before him but he as Aphthonius says of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 has writ the best Fables Hence Quintilian observes That those Fables commonly reported to be Aesops though they were not all really his for Hesiod seems to have been the Author of many of them as I have before hinted yet were they chiefly Celebrated under Aesops name But I shall conclude my long Preface with what Phaedrus says of his work in his Prologue to it Duplex Libelli dos est Quod risum movet quod Prudenti vitam consilio monet That there is a double gift or advantage in this Book It both excites Laughter and gives wholsom Instructions for the Prudent Government of our Lives Mythologia Ethica OR AESOPIAN FABLES The First Century FAB I. The Cock and the Precious Stone A Dunghil Cock scratching in a Heap of Dirt espyed a Precious Stone on which casting a scornful Eye What a glittering thing said he art thou Had a Jeweller who knew thy value been so happy to find thee he would have rejoyced for thou mightest have made him rich But since thou art of no Benefit to me I despise thee and should rather have found a Grain of Barly than all the Sparkling Gemms of the World. By this Precious Stone may be meant Wisdom and Arts and by the Dunghil Cock an Ignorant man who has no Love for Knowledge because he understands not its Value Again The Cock may also signifie the Covetous and the Luxurious man both which spend their Lives scratching amongst the Dirt of the World The former in a search after Riches the latter in satisfying his Brutish Lusts And tho they have