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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00463	The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian, compiled moste eloquently in Scottishe metre by Master Robert Henrison, & now lately Englished. ; Euery tale moralized most aptly to this present time, worthy to be read..; Aesop's fables. English. Selections. 1577	Aesop.; Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?; Smith, Richard, fl. 1587.	1577 (1577)	STC 186.5; ESTC S90053	52,310	130

saw the water and waues wood Astonisht all still in a muse he stood And sayd better that I had bidden at hame Nor bene a fisher in the Deuils name Now must I scrape my meate out of the flood And I haue nother bootes nor yet boat As he was thus for faulte of meate neare wood Looking about like a wyly soat Vnder a tree he saw a trip of goate Than was he mery and through the hedge him hid And from the goate he stale hir little kid So ouer the hedge vnto the water hies And tooke the kidde by the hornes twayne And in the water either twise or thryse He dowked him and to him can he sayne Go downe sir kid come vp sir Salmon againe While he was dead so to the lande him drough And of that new made Salmon he eate inough Thus finely filled with yong tender meate Vnto a thicket for dread he him adrest Vnder a bush where the Sunne can beate To beyke his brest and belly he thought best And scorningly he sayde where he did rest Stroking his wombe against the Sunnes heate Vpon this belly what if a bolt should beate When this was sayd the keeper of the gayt Carefull in hart his kid was stolne away On euery side full warely could he wayt Till at the last he saw where Laurence lay A bowe he bent an arrow with feathers gray He drew to the head and or he stearth The Foxe he pricketh fast vnto the earth Now quoth the Foxe alas and well away Gored I am and may no further go Me thinkes no man may speake a woorde in play But now adayes in earnest it s turned so He tooke him and his arrow drew him fro And for his Kid and other violence He tooke his skinne and made a recompence Moralitie THis sudden death and vnprouided end Of this false Tod without prouision Example is exhorting folke to amend For dread of such and like confusion For many now hath good profession Yet not repentes nor for their sinnes weepe Bicause they thinke their lusty life so sweete Some bene also thorow consueted and ryte Vanquisht with carnall sensualitie Suppose they be as for the time contryte Can not forbeare nor fro their sinnes flee Vse drawes nature so in propertie Of beast and man that needes they must do As they of long time haue bene vsde thereto Beware good folkes and feare this sudden shote Whiche smites sort without any resistaunce Attend wisely and in your hartes note Against death may no man make defence Cease off your sinne remorse your conscience Obey vnto your God and ye shall wend After your death to blisse withouten end FINIS The Retoricall tale of the sonne and heyre of the foresayd Foxe called Father Wars also the Parlement of foure footed beastes holden by the Lyon. THis foresayd Foxe that dide for his misdeede Had not one Sonne was gotten rightuously To be heyre by law that might succeede Except one Sonne whiche in adultery He gotten had by purchase priuily And he gaue him to name father wurst That loude well pultry although he were curst It folowes still by reason naturall As degree by degree of right comparison Of euill comes worse of worse comes worst of all Of wrongfull getting comes false succession This Foxe bastard of generation Of very kinde behoued to be false So was his Father and his Graundsir al 's As naturall seeking his meate by sent By chaunce he found his fathers carrion Naked new slayne and to him as he went Tooke vp his head and on his knees fell downne Thanking the Gods of that conclusion And sayd now shall I walke since I am heyre The boundes where thou were wont to repayre Fye couetous vnkind and venemous The Sonne was glad he found his father dead By sudden shotte for deedes odious That he might raigne and rage still in his stead Dreading nothing the same life to leade In theft and robry as did his father before But to the end attent he tooke no more Yet neuerthelesse thorow naturall pittie The Carrion vpon his backe he taeth Now finde I well this Prouerbe true quoth he Still runnes the Foxe as long as he foote hath So with the corps vnto a pit he gaeth Of water full and cast him in the deepe And to the Deuill he gaue his bones to keepe Oh foolish man plonged in worldlinesse To gather golde and other worldly meede To put thy soule in payne and heauinesse To ritche thine heyre whiche hath but little neede Haue be thy good once he takes but small heede To execute to do to satisfie Thy latter will thy debt and legacie This Tod to rest him he passed till a crag And there be heard a boystrous horne bloro Whiche as he thought made all the world wag At last a Vnicorne came running below Then start he vp when he this heard and sawe With horne in band a bill on brest he bore The goodliest Pursiuant that erst was seene before Unto a banke where he mought see aboute On euery side in hast he gan him hie Shot out his voyce full shrill and gaue a showte And on this wise twice or thryce did crie With that the beasts in the fieldes thereby All meruayling what such a thing should meene Greatly agast they gathered on a greene Out of a wood a Bull so gan he brayde And redde the text withouten tarrying Commaunding silence sadly thus he sayd The noble Lion of all beasts the King Greeting to God health euerlasting To brutall beasts and irration all I send as to my subiects great and small My celsitude and hie magnificence Let you to wit that euen incontinent As to morow with Royall diligence Vpon this hill to holde my Parlement Straytly therefore I giue commaundement For to appeare before my trybunall Vnder all payne that may thereof befall The morrow came and Phebus with his beames Consumed had the misty clowdes gray The ground was greene and as gold it gleames With grasse growing goodly great and gay The spice they spread to smell on euery spray The Larke the Mauis and the Metle full hie Sweetely can sing skipping fro tree to tree Two Leopards came with crowne of massiue gold And so they brought it to the hils height With Iaspers Ionet and royals Rubies rold And many diuers Diamondes ydight With speaken roapes a pauilion downe they pight And there in throne sate a mighty wilde Lion In robe Royall with Scepter swoorde Corone After the tenor of the cry before That all foure footed beasts should appeere in place Is they commaunded were withouten more Before the Lorde the mighty Lions grace And what they were to me Laurence tolde apace As I shall rehearse apart of euery kinde As far as now occurreth to my minde The Minotaur a monster maruelous Bellerophon that beast of bastardy The Warwolf and the Pegase perillous Transformed by assent of Sorcery The Linx the Tyger full of tyranny The Elephant and eke the Dromedary The Camell with