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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41556	Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.	Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1284; ESTC R215162	66,798	60

but the elder being killed in the civil Warrs by the Martiall Conduct of Henry King of Navarr The younger brother was constrayned by the Pope for the good of the Catholick Cause which in their opinion justifies a dispensation for any thing not only to succeed his brother in his estate but also in his office of Generall under Henrie III. Thus we find the honest Capuchine transformed into a Duke and Peer of France and into a man of war But how soon it pleased the LORD of Hosts to restore Peace to France by the settlement of Henry IV. in the capital city the new Duke instantly abandoned all the pleasures of the court with all his great Estate and Ti●…les of Honour and returned to his old order of Capuchine and it was on the streets of Par●…s in a cold winter day that a lice●…tious droll a modern Dei ●… or to say better a reall Atheist rancountred this religious father bare legged and bare footed save only that he had sandalls under his soles But the duply of that truly religious noble Soul ought not to be forgot As I beleeve those regions of Bless and mar●…sions of eternall Glorie to which I hope GOD of his infinite Mercie and for the infinit merits of holy Iesus will bring me when it 's his good pleasure that I be delivered from a vain a sinfull and miserable life so if there be a ●…ell where incorrigible sinners shall be eternally tormented whereof I am fully perswaded because the Justice of GOD requires it then Sir you will be found to be the greatest fool of the two FAB CCCCLII Page 428. Rondelitius a French Physitian hath a story somewhat to this Purpose of a cheating Rogue in France who gained no little money by countersitting that strange Disease named the Catalepsy whose real stupefaction do●…h so resemble the Insensibility of a dead Body that the People of Cullen buried the Subtile Doctor alive but Rondelitius having good ground to suspect the counterfit Cataleptic as an Impostor He said that He had cured many o●… that Disease by a very easie remedie yet so effectual that they never relapsed into it again and that was only to bastinado them soundly from head to foot 〈◊〉 how soon the Eck statick Cheat heard this he gat up and away and ●…o the Disease was cured FAB CCCCLVIII Page 434. Plutarch in his Moralls reports a Parallel storie to this Miser with his rotten Apples Of a Merchant in Chios who had many sorts of Greek Wines to traffick with Yea the Isle of Chios is famous for produceing naturally very generous wines this merchant was a great miser and having bought a slave in the morning he ordered him to tast his serveral sorts of wine and to 〈◊〉 by themselves any bottles which contained sour or vappid wine but when the Slave perceived His Mister to make Use of those and of ●…one 〈◊〉 at his Meat he shewed Him a fair Pair of Heels after Dinner but being brought back again and told that it was death by the Law for a slave to become Fugitive I know no less replied he for I would rather choose death than serve a Fool a Fool said his overtakers He is accounted a very wise man who is your master he must either be a fool or a madman said the slave who having many good Wines in his Possession and the Propriety of them also that will still take the worst to his own Use. FAB CCCCLXIV Page 〈◊〉 The most lamentable Story that ever I read of an Outrage of this Nature commited in cold blood not on a beast but on a man not on a stranger but the mans own Son and the eldest too was perpetrated by Sha Ab●…as K. of Persia who lived not long agoe he was a Prince of great parts but very Tyrannicall as generally the Asiatick monarchs are and when their people come to a general grudging and a murmuring against the Goverment it 's an infallible evidence that it 's highly Tyrannical for it 's well known to Historians that the Asiaticks have been generally slaves since the dayes of Nimrod tho' some of their Princes are less severe than others We need no other Evidence of their being so inured to slaverie that they affected these chaines than the proffer which the Romans made to the Cappadocians even to set them at liberty that they might become a Common-Wealth since their Kings had so tyrannized over them but their Answer was surprising to the Romans who expected great Thanks for tendering that to them which is acounted the greatest Blessing upon earth next to bodily Health We have been so accust ●…med to Kingly Government said the Cappadocians that We will choose rather to have a King let him be never so great a Tyrant than to have none at all But let Us return to Sha Abbas who had a Son and his first born too that was a Prince of great Vertue and greatly beloved by all Ranks of People and never a Son honoured his Parents more than He did His Royall Father He was also arrived at such an Age as to have Wife and Children This unfortunate Prince found one day a little Schedule of Paper lying in his chamber unsealed and unsubscribed with very odd contents the sum thereof was this that if he were willing he should be put in present possession of the administration of the government since neither the nobility nor body of the people could any longer endure the intolerable Tyrannie of his Father We may easily imagine how surprising this paper was to an innocent Soul who had never harboured such unnatural thoughts Yea abhorred them as he did the Devil and Hell it self so that in a true filial rage he was once resolved to throw that treasonable paper into the fire as most worthy of Hell fire till he began to reflect on two things 1. that it might be a politick Fetch of his Father to try how he would behave for he knew Him to be of as Jealous a temper as any man living Or supposeing it to be a reall effect of the conspiracie of the nobles against his father yet he judged it probable that some pick thank among them or a timerous Soul might reveale the combination to the King with the circumstance of that dropped paper so that the Maxime of Law might be applyed to himself Qui tacet consentire videtur Therefore he finaly determined to acquaint the King with that unhappy emergencie and withall to make infinite protestatons of his own ignorance of the matter and His fitter Abhorrence of so vile a Designe The father was well pleased with the prudent Conduct of his Son and throughly convinced of his innocencie Yet that fatal paper had raised such suspicions of the Nobles in his head and such sinistrous suppositions concerning His own Son that it was possible he might yet be prevailed upon to comply with that treasonable designe since a great Crown is a great temptation or that it would

some other Nations besid●…s the Scots which in plain English imports That Experience is the School-Master of Fools Insipient●…s 〈◊〉 d●…cere non putavi Yet better late wise than never FAB LXI Page 60. It might have been farther illustrated with that of the Poet Quisquis ama●… Ranam Ranam put at esse Dianam As also Difficile est exuere naturam Yea Naturam expellas furca tamen ipsa recurrit FAB LXII Page 62. The ●…able is grounded on a true Story viz. the Practice of 〈◊〉 a Turtarian Prince who had LXXX Sons of diverse Venters who tryed every one of them with a great Bundle of Arrows c. FAB LXIV LXV Page 64. To this might have been added that of the Poet Si qua voles apte nubere nube pari And that mystical Counsel of the Philosopher to the young man at Athens who demanded his Advice whether he should mary a very rich Woman but very old or one of his own Age but of a mean Fortune The Philosopher bid him go and over-hear the School-Boys at their Play and tell Him what was the most usual Expression among them and then he should resolve his Doubt At his Return he told the Philosopher that the words He most frequently hear'd among them were I will not play with You for you are not my equal These School-Boys said the Philosopher have taught you how to resolve your own Case FAB LXVI Page 65. Gods withholding Sleep from K. Ahasuerus such a Night was a wonderfull preventing Providence for a poor Mordecai and such was the preservation of innocent David for being almost wholly surrounded by a more powerfull Enemy a Letter in that very Nick of time recalled his implacable Father-in-Lavv to oppose the Philistins that had invaded the Land No doubt there was an extraordinary Providence in the Curiosity of the people at Constantinople in running out of the Church to see their young Emperour Arcadius passing by for they were scarce well all gone out when the Church fell and without a miracle would have smothered them all if they had not thus seasonably removed Such wonderfull Providences have attended some Pagans was not the Life of K. Croesus preserv'd by the Vehemencie of his Sons affection which loosed that tongue which had been Dumb from his Infancie in that very Instant when one of Cyrus his Souldiers was lifting up his Hand to kill the King whom he no more knew to be the King in that Crowd of Fugitives than the Turks did long afterwards know Constantine Paleolo●…us to be the unfortunate Emperour when He was flying with many others towards the Gate of Constantinople But Examples of this nature are allmost infinite especially among observant Christians so that the Poet Claudian tho' a Pagan did admire the singular Providences that attended Theodosius the Great in his Wars against the Tyrant Maximus the Usurper Eugenius which excited Him to celebrat them in excellent heroick Verse The Poem thus begins O nimium dilecte Deo Cui fundit ab antris Aeolus armatas Hyemes cui militat Aether Et conjurati veniunt ad Classica Venti FAB LXVIII Page 66. That Distich contains the Moral of this Fable Dico tibi verum Libertas optima rerum Nunquam servili sub Nexu vivito Fili. To which may be added that of another Poet Quod sis esse velis ne te quaesiveris extra And Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest FAB LXXII Page 71. Here he had Occasion by the Foretop to have instanced diverse who by snatching a Collo●… from GOD's Altar had their Nests and all burnt up at last It 's the Opinion of some very judicious Divines that Sacrilege was the primary Guilt of human Nature our first Parents having too liquorish an Appetite after that forbidden Fruit which GOD had reserved to Himself And that God did severely punish Sacrilege the Examples of Achan in the Old Testament and of Ananias and Sapphira in the New are sufficient Evidences thereof And if We consult the Books of Maccabees and the Roman History we will find strange Judgments that befell some of the Syrian Kings and Marcus Crassus the Roman Consul for presumeing to robb the Temple of the true and living GOD which was at Hierusalem Yea it 's very observeable that GOD permitted the Devil to punish signally those ●…agans who made bold to rob their Heathen Gods for it was Sacri●…ge as to them Thus Cambyses lost 50000. of his Army in the Sands of Lybia for his Design to 〈◊〉 the Temple of Iupiter Hammon and the almost miraculous ●…unishments which were inflicted upon Xerxes with his Pers●…ans on 〈◊〉 with his Gauls for attempting to rob the famous Temple of Apollo at Delphos are so well known that we need not insist upon them But the most extensive Judgement that ever I read or did befall the Consul Caepio with his Romans for robbing the Temple of Tholouse in Languedoe it being observed by the Romans that there was not one of that Army that had the least hand in that Sacrilege but dyed a violent Death so that it became proverbial at Rome when they saw any man in extreme Misery Aurum habet Tholousanum He hath the Gold of Tholou●…e But I shall shut up this desolating Point with such a strange Contrivance of Revenge upon the Acceunt of Sacrilege that there was never a more subtile vindictive design hatched in hel itself which being a sufficient Indication of the sentiments of the generality of Christians in that Age wherin it was acted which was the XIII Century that it hath induced me to narrate it at a very considerable length Frederick the second of that Name Emperour of Germany c. K. of Naples had for many Years entertain'd in his Service a Noble Neapolitan named Petrus de Vineis as his principal Consident and Councellour and in regard of his great Knowledge and Prudence He was generally deemed worthy of that great Trust for it was he who defended the Cause of his great Master before the Councel of Lyons to the Admiration of all the hearers But I believe the Eloquence of Cicero and Demost●…enes blended together would not have broke thro' the implacable malice of Pope Innocent IV. Therfore de Vineis after the Excommunication of the Emperour in that Council with Bell Book and Candle wrote an Apology for Him which was entituled The Complaint of Frederick II. against the Pope wherein He gave aboundant Demonstration both from the Civil and Canon Law from the Law of GOD and Nature that his pretended Holyness had acted contrary both to Reason and Religion so that We need not doubt of the Pope's Carefulness to suppress that unanswerable Book ●…ut after all this an unhappy jealousie possessed the Heart of this unfortunat Emperour as if his chief Minion had secretly conspir'd with the Pope against him whereupon in a Rage he commanded to pull out the Eyes or de Vineis but that B●…rbarity was scarce wel acted when the