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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

congratulate with Him as a Darling of Heaven he answered verie modestly Nescitis O Amici ad quae Fata Dij me reservarunt Neither was he disappointed of his feares for within few dayes he was tortured to death by his cruell Associats whose tyrannie he thought to have dissolved by restoring the antient liberty to his People but his good designe was thus disappointed providence having reserved that Glorious work for another patriot named Thrasybulus The next instance is more wonderfull both as to the preservation and destruction of the person concerned who could not be taxed with any Immorality because he was not come to the years of discretion and that was the grandchild of that famous Saracen Prince named Almansor whom not one that ever reigned in this world exceded for morality if we believe S. Walter Raleigh in the Historie of his life which that judicious Historian says that He compyled out of two verie antient Arabian Manuscripts This renowned grandfather recommended the infant successour to the Tuition of one that he judged a verie trusty friend and servant but the old villain having a designe upon that great Empire for himself thought to have dispatched His Pupill most subtily by a most gorgeous coat that he had tinctured inwardly with Poyson which had certainly taken effect had it not been for a dream of the mother of this young Prince who was so fond of that splendid Vesture that He was just ready to put it on when she made a shift to put it upon another by whose death the Treason was discovered but tho' the Prince was wonderfully preserved at this time Yet within few dayes the infant lying in his bed in good Health there descendeda Spider one morning from the Top of it and did bite his Lipp which so inflamed that it produced a Feaver and a speedy Death and with Him ended the Glorie of the Saracen Empire which was then at the Height By an exact Geographical Computation it will be found that there was never anie Monarchy in the World preferable to it for Vastness of Dominion no not the Roman in the days of Augustus For they had a considerable Interest in Europe beside the Continent of Spain a farr greater Portion of Africa than ever the Romans had and the whole Kingdom of Persia which the Romans never subdued The former Instance verifies that of the H. Scripture that GOD's Judgements are a very great Depth tho' always just but there is no man who hath the Use of Reason but will be ready to justifie the Judgement of God in the succeeding story which concerns a wicked Robber and Murderer in France This villanous 〈◊〉 having bereaved many Innocents of their Lives did fall asleep one Summers Night at the Foot of an old Wall when He dreamed that a reverend Old Man came to Him and bid Him instantly remove from the Place otherways the ruinous old wall would fall on Him which He had no sooner done than the wal did fall but the impious wretch was so far from making a good use of that wonderfull mercie that He did blasphemously imagine that the infinite Justice did approve his wicked Courses so that He went about His old Trade and the very next Night murdered a Man then falling asleep tho' not under a wall He dreamed again that his old Monitor came to him and said to him Ah you ingrate wicked Wretch is this the thank You give GOD Almighty for your late wonderful Deliverance to return again to that inhumane trade of murdering of men made after rhe Image of GOD But now know for your terrour that it was out of no kindness to You that I warned You of Your danger but that your preservation might be a reservation to a greater Judgment even an ignominious Death before the World which within few Hours wil be inflicted upon You This profligat Villain was scarce well awakned from this terrible Night-Vision when the Officers of Iustice seized upon Him so that the very next Day he was publickly broken upon the Row as he well deserved FAB CCCCI Page 375. The exactest Parallel I know to this Cobling Doctor with the discoverie of the cheat is that remarkable storie which fell out in this same age concerning a Iew named Sabbatai Sevi who became such a grand Impostor that I believe the like of him did not arise since the days of Mahomet that Prodigy of Impostors for He had so deluded that long obdured Nation with a pretence of Miracles and divine Revelation that they verily believed He was their promised MESSIAH whom they had so long expected so that the generality of the Iews became perfectly mad for they sold all their effects here and there at very easy rates and were all upon wing for Ierusalem in expectation of that universall monarchy but when the Grand Seignior Mahomet IV. was informed that Sabbatai gave out he would lead the great Turk in Chaines to Ierusalem and upon his ruins begin the erection of his new Empire he caused bring him chained to Adrianople and then told Him that He behooved to stand naked within a very smal distance from six of his guard who were to discharge their Harquebuzes upon him and if said the Grand Seignior You catch no harm I will then believe that you can work mirrcles otherwise you must instantly be circumcised and turned Mussleman for there is no other safety for you The poor fellowes faith failed so that he made as ingenious a confession as the Cobler did to the Governour and instantly became Turk and here is an end of that noysie pageantrie of which I have given but a verie brief extract but whoso desires to see it at large he will find it in a particular treatise made by Paul Ricaut for that effect or in the addition to Mr. Knall's Turks Historie composed by that same Authour FAB CCCCVIII Page 384. In the life of Thales Milesius one of the seven sages of Greece there is a true storie almost to the same purpose This Philosopher had an Ass which from a certain place used to carrie a load of Salt for the Masters behove now there being a river in the way she once stumbled and fell therein so that a large quantity of the salt was dissolved by the water she finding her burden to be thereby considerably lightned had so much of a bru●…ish sagacity as to commence a spontaneous falling more than once for her own ease but to her Masters disadvantage which being observed by that wise Philosopher He caused load her with a great pack of wool so that finding her burden once and again augmented by her plunging she was afterwards very carefull to keep her feet straight when she entered into the water And that there be some old resty Jades call it policy or what you will who counterfit the Spavin or Halting that the ryder may spare his spurs a litle is well known by the experience of the world FAB CCCCXIII Page 388. Here might have

much more unhappie than the man mentioned in the Fable for this prodigal Nobleman had really wasted a great Estate upon Hospitality apprehending that His Trencher-Friends would help him at a Dead-Lift But when He came to a great Decay of his fortune all these precarious Flies were gone because there was no more Fire nor Meat handled in His Kitchen so that He hated all Mankind and for manie Years shunned the Companie of all the world therefore it 's no wonder that the People flocked about Him when He came one day from the Country whether He had retired to the Market Place in Athens where He made this strange Proclamation That having an old Tree in his Orchard which He was about to cut down Therefore He thought fit to warn them seasonably that if there were any of them who had a design to hang themselves let them come for that effect to his Orchard and He should spare that tree two or three days longer upon that acount since many had been formerly hang'd thereon FAB CCCXLVI Page 302. It seems the Grand Seigniours or Great Turks have consulted this fable by employing the most despicable of their Infantry to to blunt their Enemies Weapons FAB CCCLIV. Page 324. To this Taylor 's Wife the Queen of Corinth espoused to Periander one of the seven Wise-Men of Greece and that infamous Xantippe married to Socrates may be said to have been Cousin-germans for their Husbands had as often served Inhibition against them not to overturn their Tables Meat and all especiallie when Strangers were their Guests as the Taylor had prohibited his Wife to call Him Prick-Louse Yet all in vain Hinc Inde But we need not travel the length of Greece for such exotick Plants since our own Countrey affords Us but too manie noisome Weeds of that Nature Yet I cannot but approve the judicious Observation of the Commentator That there be as many shrewd Husbands as there be female shrews in the World and that the Man is more to blame because he ought to have more Knowlege and Wit than the Wife and if we beleeve the H. Scripture It 's the Glory of a Man to pass by Infirmities and to cover the Imperfections of a Wife if possibly they can be palliated FAB CCCLXIV Page 335. Here is Occasion enough for Raillerie upon the Ignorance of Priests before the Reformation for tho' I suppose the Romanists had never the Civility to thank Protestants for it yet it 's a most certain truth that by their frequent preaching they awakned them out of their Lethargic Stupidity of Ignorance it being most ridiculous to hear a Priest expound that Article of his Creed Passus sub Pontio Pilato He passed under the bridg Pilate and the other who would prove from the Scripture that GOD made at first ten worlds by these words of our Saviour Nonne decem fact●… sunt Mund●… which was easilie confuted by the subsequent question sed ubi sunt novem I might also instance Dimissus est per portam The Priest not having latin for a basket and the undertaking of another to prove by divine Testimonie that the People of his Parish were bound to pave the Church but not himself by citing the words of the Prophet Paveant illi non ego but examples of this nature are almost infinite which gave occasion to those who had some stock of latine to say Loquere latine ne intelligant Sacerd●…tes But as its lamentable so also edifying to read the pitifull account of an ignorant Priest in Bavaria which Bontface called the Apostle of Germanie gave to Pope Zacharie that the said Priest for manie years in the destitution of better latine had thus baptized In nomina pa●…rua filia spiritua Sancta For this instance alone holds furth sufficiently the great Inconveniencies of publick Liturgies in an unknown Tongue But there is far greater danger to the Church of GOD in absurd reasonings either from scripture or anie other Topic than in the frequent wounding of Priscian's head be the Solaecisms never so gross in any language and whose desires a large Catalogue of such ridiculous P●…ralogisms let him read a full account of the Acts and Canons of the second Councill of Nice as it is termed and he will find a shoall of them Usque ad nauseam and all forsooth to buoy up that idolatrous and most scandalous practice in their Adoration of Images but we have not spare time to insist any longer on such Trumperies FAB CCCLXVII Page 338. Ludere in re seria seldom misseth of being an indication of a fool in earnest and among things serious I account not only sacred matters but also the approach of death as a most serious adventure for if a man mistell a stepp then he may resolve upon it to step in upon an Eternitie of remediless Miserie where bantering and lampooning Jibing and al kinds of Jesting are quite out of fashion so that they who give themselves to this kind of levity when death is looking them in the face it seemes they have never seriouslie and seasonably considered that of the wise man There is a time for all things and though some through excesse of Charitie are apt to impute it to greatness of spirit yet it savours either of Atheism as if they did not believe the immortality of the Soul or at least of too great unconcernedness with the present state both of Soul and body Sir Thomas More Chancellour of England was undoubtedly a great Soul but I beleeve there is no sober person who will approve his jesting humour when He was ascending that fatal Theatre farr less the continuation of it when he layed down his head upon the block FAB CCCLXXXII Page 352. Plutarch in his descrintion of the ban●…t of the seven Sa●…s tells this storie at greater length tho' there be many who question the Truth of Arion's escape by such means because that Fish which is usually termed a Dolphin appeares so litle and feeble as that without a miracle it could not possiblie have sustained a man upon its back so long a way at sea but whither it be fabulous or not one thing is certain that divers men have been most wonderfully rescued out of the jawes of death and even some infideles as well as Christians for the divine providence reacheth over all We had occasion to give some examples of this nature already but what I am now to ad imports that their preservation was but a reservation to a greater misfortune or let it be call'd a greater judgment on some wicked persons who triffled notwithstanding at first with such an extraordinarie Providence How admirable was the preservation of Theramenes one of the 30 Tyrants at Athens for being call'd but for one word to be spoken to a Friend at the Gate in the midst of a great feast he was scarce wel over the threshold when the house fell and smothred all the rest of the Guests But when his Friends flocked about him to