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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

of its bounds being furiously pursued by a Wolf suddainly leapt and turning to him said O Wolf since I must be your Meal that I may dy with some pleasure pray be so kind to let me first hear one Tune for I know your Performance in Music to be very excellent The Wolf began to Sing and the Lamb to Dance to it which extreamly delighted the Wolf and encouraged him to continue his Melody with great Eagerness and Vigor till the Dogs of the next Village hearing that Howling Noise came runing and were at his Heels e're he perceived them Then turning to the Lamb he had but just time to say as he was seized I am rightly served that being by my Education a Cook must needs take upon me to be a Musician This Fable aims at those who leaving their Trades and Professions to which they have been bred and wherein they are very well skill'd will undertake others of which they have no knowledg and by them are deservedly ruined FAB XXXI The Vale and the Mountain A Vale lying Low by the side of a High Mountain that had long kept her in Subjection brake out at last into these angry Expressions against him How long thou Combersom Hill wilt thou persist to insult over me Remove thy self further off and think not on this manner ever to keep me a Slave to thee for if thou do I will certainly revenge my self of thy Oppression Since it hath thus answered the Mountain pleased the Almighty Creator of all things to set me over thee from the Beginning Be not angry at what connot be remedied but be patient under the Decrees of Heaven The Vale not regarding the sober Admonition of the Mountain brought a great Army of Trees and Plants who advancing with Fury upon his sides Fought valiantly against him wounding him in several Places hoping by this means to have forced the Hill to remove that so she might have drawn her self from his Power But he being provoked to passion Thou foolish Vale said he that hast the Insolence to Rebel and thus to begin a War against thy Soveraign thou shalt soon feel the effects of my Indignation which thou hast pulled on thine own head And saying this the Mountain threw down great Stones whereby he soon vanquished the Rebellious Army and so humbled the proud Vally that she was quickly brought again to her wonted Obedience Servants ought to obey their Masters and Subjects to pay their just Duty and Allegiance to their Soveraigns and those who are set in Authority over them For we must remember that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Prince is Gods Representative FAB XXXII The Ass and the Calf AN Ass and a Calf feeding together in a Medow they heard an Alarm given of the approach of Soldiers marching that way Let us run for our Lives said the Calf to the Ass lest we be found here and taken by the Enemy Run thou answered the Ass that fearest being killed As for my share I need not concern my self for to whose lot soever I fall I am still sure of carrying the Burden Men born to Slavery need not be afrighted at changing their Masters since they are not sure but that they may shift for the better Nulla e il loco cangiar con sorte eguale FAB XXXIII The Wolf turned Shepherd IN a Forrest near a large Pasture stocked with divers Flocks of Sheep and heards of Cattle there shelted an Antient Wolf who by reason of his Age was not so able to fetch in his Prey from that Neighbourhood as aforetimes he therefore contrived this subtil stratagem He cloathed himself like a Shepherd with a suit rightly fixt on his Body a Hat upon his Head and then walking upright on his hind Feet he carried his Crook on his Shoulder nor wanted he his Bagpipes at his Girdle to be compleat in all respects In this Equipage went out the Traytor to the Pasture where he found the true Shepherd with his Dogs and most of his Flock sleeping Then wanting a Device to draw the Sheep to the Woodside he thought to have accommodated his voice to his Habit intending to imitate the Shepherds Call but that break the neck of his whole design for his shril Howl made the Woods and Hills eccho so loud that it discovered the Mystery allarming the Shepherd and his Dogs by whom our Impostor was so vigorously pursued that being hindred in his flight by his New Accoutrements he was soon taken and lost his life For him that is a Wolf 't is safest acting as a Wolf. And so the French saying is Quiconque est Loup agesse en Loup C'est le plus cartain de beaucoup For the Italians say Non puo la falsita star sempre occulta Falshood cannot alwaies lye concealed FAB XXXIV The Woman that lamented her Husbands Death EXtreamly afflicted was a Young Woman at the Sickness of her Husband whom the Doctors had given over as a Dead Man but the kind Father endeavored on this manner to comfort her Do not take this loss so much to heart my Dear Child said he for I have found out a handsom Man to make thee another Husband one that I hope will soon Mitigate thy Grief and blot this loss out of thy Mind Ah Father answered this good Woman let me intreat you not to mention another Husband to me for as often as I hear you but name that word Husband 't is like so many Stabs of a Dagger to my Heart Presently after so soon as her Husband was dead Father said she Blubbering and Crying when will you bring me the handsom Husband you told me you had found out for me This showes that a Womans Grief for her Husband lasts no longer than till the Breath be out of his Body FAB XXXV The Country-man and a Horse-man TO the City as a Country-man was traveling with a Hare at his back to sell he met a Horse-man who under pretence of buying it poised it in his hand and as he asked the price claping Spurs suddainly to his Horse he galloped full speed away The Country-man seeing him at some distance and his Hare past recovery he called aloud after him Ho Friend do you hear I present you with that Hare pray eat her for my sake and be merry with her but forget not to drink my Heath who so frankly bestow her on you 'T is good sometimes when a Disgrace or Mischief happens to us if it be past all Remedy to Dissemble and pass it off with a Iest or with Laughter Ridicule haec Homines nequunt quae vendere donant FAB XXXVI The Old Wolf that found a Prey SO feeble was an Old Wolf grown by reason of his Age that he was no longer able to hunt for his Prey nor were any of his former Comrades so kind to give him a share of theirs but all drove him away when he offered to come near them This Distressed Wolf ranging alone about the Woods found a dead Ox on

who quickly gave his Suffrage in favour of the Cuckow she having sung longest and loudest Such admirable Iudgments may we too often see where the worst things please and the best are rejected And thus are many Ignorant and Unworthy men for their confidence and noise advanced to places of Profit and Honour whilst those of far greater Virtue and Merit are for their Modesty slighted and perish unregarded FAB LXXX Death and an Old Man. DEath coming to kill an Old Man was desired by him to forbear a while till he had made his Will but Death angrily told him He would give him no longer time since he had been so often forewarned to prepare himself for this stroak The Old Man protested he had never seen him before and that he had not given him any notice of it When I kill'd said Death your Companions nay so many Young Persons and Children and that you felt your strength and vigour fail you then was your Summons then should you have fixed your Thoughts on me and then made a fit Preparation of all things and kept them so in order till my coming This advises us always to be prepared for Death since we know not the Day nor the Hour when he will come FAB LXXXI The League between the Wolves and Sheep THE Wolves on pretence of settling a Peace with the Sheep had a Conference with them wherein they urged this cunning Discourse to them That both You and We said they may for the future make our Lives Happy we come to propose a means of living peaceably and amicably together without any of our accustomed Fears and Jealousies one of another To this end let us make a solemn League betwixt us which that it may be kept firm and by no private Injuries violated it will be necessary that you take off or banish from amongst you those Wicked Dogs the Incendiaries that are always troubling our Peace and embroiling us in Mischief For they create in you a Jealousie of us that we cannot walk civilly by your Folds but they are sallying out to molest us by which rough usage they provoke us when alas we never intended it to give you disturbance meerly out of revenge to their affronts So that we would fain know what need you have of these Pernicious Creatures the sole cause of all our Misunderstandings By this plausible Harangue the poor Sheep full of Simplicity being easily deluded put away in all haste their Dogs with great Disgrace from amongst them admitting the Wolves in their stead and then being destitute of all Succour they were soon miserably devoured by their merciless Adversaries This cautions us not to give credit to the deluding words of our Enemies nor to yield up our Guards into their Hands For Alexander proposing to make Peace with the Athenians on condition they should deliver to him Eight of their principal Citizens of which number Demosthenes was to be one Demosthenes spake this Fable meaning by the Wolves Alexander by the Dogs those Persons who managed the Affairs of the Commonwealth and by the Sheep the People of Athens FAB LXXXII The Covetous Man and his Money AS a very Rich but Covetous Man lay at the point of Death he ordered all his Money-Bags to be brought before him and made this Discourse to them O my Ungrateful Money said he with what intollerable pains have I scraped you up together and yet you have never given me any Pleasure but rather a continual Vexation Fear and Melancholly What can you do for me now at this last Exigency Can you prolong my days beyond their appointed date Or can you purchase me a good Conscience when I shall appear in the other World to render an account of all the Actions of my Life No answered the Money we are able to do you no good in these respects but we can give you the satisfaction to assure you that your Heir shall soon consume us all in Whoring Drinking and Gaming and that for our sake your Soul shall go to the place of Everlasting Torment We ought not to take such pains in gathering Riches here on Earth which can be of no advantage to us when we dye and shall perhaps be soon spent by our Heirs in Rioting and Debauchery Non dobbiamo far Tesoro qui in terra doue non e la nostra patria ma nel Cielo doue eternalmente goderemo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theog A Rich Man cannot with all his Money stave off Death neither any grievous Sickness nor Old Age when it comes upon him FAB LXXXIII The Parrot WHen a Parrot that had been brought from the Indies into a Country where they never use to breed was asked by some other Birds why she was in greater esteem here than at home for here added they you have a stately Cage or House made of Ebony adorned with Ivory and Silver and are daily fed carefully with the choicest Meats and made much of by all sorts of People You need not wonder at it answered the Parrot for few have the Honour in their own Country which is justly due to them Learned and Excellent Men have seldom the Credit and Esteem in their own Countries which they have in another FAB LXXXIV The Stag and a Wounded Grey-hound A Stag that bore chiefest sway in a large Forrest had the pleasure without incurring any danger to see a brace of Grey-hounds course a Hare over a spacious Field where one of the Dogs leaping eagerly through certain brambles broke his Leg. Now this Stag being of a generous Spirit seeing the Hare safe for the other Grey-hound wanting assistance had quitted her came out of his stand or sheltring place and made it a scruple of Conscience to suffer a Creature to perish that had shown so much briskness in the Chase out of meer compassion therefore he offered to carry this Cripple to the next Village The Greyhound was jealous at first and would gladly have excused the Complement but convinced by the kind Expressions of the Stag of his sincerity who stooped down to give him the advantage of getting on his back the Greyhound was taken up and by him carried towards the Town As they were thus on their way they related to each other their several Adventures and the Stag was just saying how happy he and his Brethren should be if the Hounds would not maliciously hunt them by the scent and make continual War against them At which moment they were overtaken by a Fox who listening had heard some of their Discourse and Smiling told the Stag It was very strange he was not sensible that he carried his greatest Enemy on his back I have no Enemies answered the Stag but the Hounds and this is a Greyhound a Creature of another Species whom I carry Both Hounds and Greyhounds replyed the Fox are at open Hostility with all your Race And I can assure you that if your life were in his Power as his is now in yours

resolved to kill him by the way Arion perceiving their Design for they had laid violent hands on him begged them to spare his Life and he would freely give them all he had or at least pray'd them to let him live till he had sung one Song to his Harp to lament the hardness of his Fortune which the Marriners for sake of the Music were content to grant This excellent man then taking his Instrument went up to the highest part of the Ships Stern and sang aloud a Song in that Movement which the Greeks called Orthion with admirable Sweetness and Passion like the dying Swan hoping thereby to have enclined the hard hearts of his Enemies to compassion But when he had done and found them still obstinate He threw himself immediately into the Sea with his Harp in his Hand where those Wretches left him to perish But a very strange and miraculous thing befel him For a Dolphin the Friend of Mankind swimming to him took him on his back and carrying him along upon the very surface of the Water landed him safely at the Promontory of Taenarus in the Country of Laconia From thence he went to Corinth presenting himself before King Periander and told him all that had happened The King not giving Credit to his Story sent him to Prison till the Marriners of his Vessel who were to have brought him were examined But they confessed only that they heard he had been in Italy much Honoured and Caressed in all the Cities where he came and that he had there heaped up much wealth which was all they knew of him When they would confess no further Arion appear'd to them in the very same Cloaths with his Harp and all his Equipage as he was when thrown into the Sea. The sight of which so astonished the Marriners that they could not deny the Fact and soon after received the just punishment of their Crime This Fable was much talked of both in Lesbos and at Corinth where they had the Story most admirably represented in Brass of a Harper dismounting from the back of a Dolphin on the Sea shoar near the Mountain Taenarus This Apologue shews us that there is very often more Clemency and Pity to be found among brute Creatures than amongst some Men who have no regard to any thing but to heap up Riches Nor any other Testimony of Humanity in them besides their shape This is taken from the First Book of Herodotus and the Sixteenth Book of Aulus Gellius FAB XXIV The Man that desired his Corn should grow without Beards OF the Goddess Ceres had a Husbandman obtained the answer of his Prayers that his Corn hereafter should grow without pricking Auns or Beards that it might not hurt the hands of his Reapers But his Corn so soon as it became ripe was eaten up by the small Birds which made him repent of his imprudent request Alas cry'd he what advantage have I got by this that for the procuring a trifling convenience have lost a fruitful Crop We may well bear with some small Inconvenience especially when accompanied with great Profits FAB XXV The Eagle the Hawk and the Kite THe Hawk and the Kite had a Dispute before the Eagle which of them was most Noble The Kite very much insisted on the Bulkiness of his Body and the Hawk boasted of his strength and the swiftness of his Flight Now whilst each of them expected the Eagles sentence in his particular favour the Wise Judge thus expressed himself Go both of you said he abroad and he of the two that shall bring home the best Prey Him will I esteem to be the noblest Bird. The Kite returned with a Mouse he had taken and the Hawk presented a Pidgeon 'T is plain now said the Eagle that the Hawk is so much more Noble than the Kite as a Pidgeon in goodness excels a Mouse Men are to be valued by their good Actions and not by the Bulkiness of their Estates And the Italian saying is Di ciascun l' Opra e dol valore il saggio Every mans Actions are the Test of his value FAB XXVI The Shepherd and his Dog. A Shepherd had committed his Flocks to be carefully looked after by his Dog and that he might fairly discharge his Trust fed him every day with good Meat But this ungrateful Cur would frequently kill a Sheep and privately eat it which when discovered by his Master he seized him and going about to kill him I beseech you Sir cry'd the Dog Spare my Life Remember that I am your Menial Servant and rather kill the Wolf who lies in wait continually to destroy your Flocks Nay said the Shepherd but thou more deservest Death than the Wolf for He is our Professed Enemy and commits those Acts of Hostility which we expect and take the best care we can to prevent Whilst thou being of my Family to whom I have entrusted so great a Charge and who under Colour of doing me good service having basely betrayed me dost merit no favour at my hands They more deserve to be punished who do us mischief under the Mask of Friendship than those who openly declare themselves to be our Enemies FAB XXVII The Father and the Son. A Father exhorted his Son to apply himself more closely to his business And that he might leave off his vicious course of life endeavoured to paint out to him the Beauty of Vertue and Deformity of Vice. Dear Father answered the ungracious Son Pray spare your pains for I have heard some Famous Philosophers as they were called railing against Vice and using their cunningest Arguments to perswade to Vertue and I would never believe them much less will I ever mind you who are no Philosopher Those Persons who are naturally of Wicked Enclinations will very seldom forsake their vices by any Perswasions whatsoever FAB XXVIII The Camel the Elephant and the Ape THe Beasts going about to choose a King the Camel and the Elephant stood Candidates for the Dignity hoping to carry it by the greatness of their Bulks and strength of their Bodies But the Ape despising them stood up and objected against both as unfit the Camel because he had not Choler enough to exercise against the unjust And as for the Elephant he laughing said we shall be apt to suspect he carries about an Army of Pigs in his great Belly by which Speech they were both put by the Election The greatest affairs may be baffled by the rediculous Objection of some envious Persons FAB XXIX The Walnut-Tree NEar a Common Road grew a Walnut-Tree whose Nuts the Passengers covering were continually pelting at with sticks and Stones whereby they miserably tare and break its Boughs the Tree being grieved at this ill usage thus lamented Oh wretched that I am who from those whom I most delight with my Fruit receive this ungreatful return This reproves those ungrateful Persons who repay Evil for Good. FAB XXX The Lamb that danced and the Wolf. A Lamb which had strayed out

have the sole enjoyment also of his Shadow Heat of Argument betwixt these two at last produced a Quarrel and from Words they fell to Blows But after a fierce Combate which could not determine the right of one or the other to the Asses Shadow with bloody Noses and swel'd Eyes they were glad to leave off by consent and to proceed on in their Journey both resolving that at Megara they would joyn Issue and try it out by Law. Demosthenes coming thus far and observing the Court very attentive to his Fable made a sudden pause and was going from the Bar but being called back by the Judges and desired to go on with his Story Are you said he so ready to listen to a foolish Tale of the Shadow of an Ass and yet stop your Ears in a Cause wherein the Life of a Man is in Question Can you listen with pleasure to such idle Tales and are you so soon weary with hearing serious Matters After this great man had on this manner given a reproof to the Judges he took up the subject of his Oration where he left off Erasmus relates this Apologue in his Adagies And I could wish continues my Author that many of our Magistrates Ears now a daies were not more attentive to such Tales of the Shadow of an Ass I mean to things triffling and ridiculous than to those whereon depend the Lives and Fortunes of poor men in distress This may also show us that the greatest part of our Quarrels and Lawsuits are about the Shadow of an Ass or Subjects altogether as frivolous FAB XXVIII The Wolf the Fox and the Shepherd AFter a plentiful Dinner a Wolf laid him down to rest before his Den where being found by a Fox he was asked the reason of his lying there on that manner I am seiz'd alas with a sudden Fit of Sickness answered the Wolf which I fear will quickly carry me out of this World unless it be timely prevented If therefore you have the Friendship for me you sometimes assure me you have pray be so charitable to go and implore the favour of the Gods for my Recovery The Fox perceiving his Neighbours Dissimulation and that all his Grievance was left in his absence he should be robed of his great Stores laid up against Winter pretended to go but went directly to a Shepherd whom he instructed where to find the Wolf assuring him it was no hard matter to kill him The man running thither surprised the Wolf and destroyed him After this the Fox with great Joy seized on all the Wolfs Stores which were left in his Hole But the triumph for this Conquest was but of short date for the same Shepherd came soon after to this Hole and finding the Fox in possession of it surprised him as he had done the Wolf and being about to kill him Surely cry'd the Fox this is a Divine Judgment upon me after having cuningly circumvented another to his Destruction who was my Neighbour that I my self should also suffer Death by my own Treasons Many times those Persons who out of Envy and Avarice have procured the Ruine and Destruction of others do happen to suffer likewise themselves by their own Plots and Machinations Invidiae ipsissimum praemium est alienae Felicitatis perire FAB XXIX The poor Man that lost his Daughters Portion AN Ass and a large pot of good Wine was almost all the substance of a poor Wretch who marrying his Daughter had promised for her Portion all the Money for which he should sell that Wine and the Ass. But it unfortunately happened on the very Wedding Night that the Ass fell sick and just before he expired as he was strugling for Life he kicked out his Legs brake the Pot and spilt all the Wine by which the Bride was deprived of her Dowry This cautions us not to build our hopes on the things of this World which are so uncertain FAB XXX The Basilisk and the Weasle WIthin a horrid Den whose entrance was covered with Weeds and Brambles dwelt a venomous Basilisk who there lay in wait to destroy the several Beasts which unhappily came that way From thence he had cast his poisonous Eyes on a harmless Weasel whom he often observed to pass boldly within the Walks of his Precinct and expected to stick dead with his Looks as it went to drink But the little Creature by its Prudence made impotent and void all the endeavours of its wicked Enemy For this Industrious Warrior being defended by his proper Arms durst face the dangerous mouth of that dismal Cave knowing himself safe whilst equipped with a branch of Rue which is said to be a Preservative against all manner of Venom for with this Herb he always girt his Body still expecting to meet his Adversary and by this means preserved himself from the mortal Contagion This admonishes a weak man to defend himself prudently against a stronger and one more powerful than himself That he take good Advice stand upon his Guard and depend not so much upon his own Strength as Wisdom in the repelling the Violence and subtll Stratagems of such Enemies This may properly be said to be Confilio viribus munita defensio Resistite Diabolo fugiet a vobis FAB XXXI Cybele's Priests and the Ass. THE Galli who were Priests of Cybele Wife of Saturn were wont to carry the Image of their Goddess with them from Town to Town Singing making Musick and strange noises with Drums and other Instruments by which they picked up Money in the several places where they came These Priests had an Ass whereon they carried about their Luggage which Ass being dead with his daily hard Labour his continual Beatings and ill Usage by the Priests they flea'd him and with his Skin headed a Drum. Some People afterwards asking them what was become of their old Friend the Ass whom they used to make much of They were by the Priests answered on this manner He had thought he should have been at rest and quiet at least when dead but you see we still contiune beating him even after his Death Phaedrus says Qui natus est infelix non vitam modò Tristem decurrit verùm post obitum quoque Persequitur illum dura Fati miseria He that is born to be miserable not only suffers his Afflictions during the course of his life here but the rigour of his cruel Fate pursues him even after his Death This was the saying of a Heathen who had no knowledg of a Heaven or a Hell But more remarkable was that of Aelius Adrianus the Emperor on his Death Bed. Animula vagula blaudula Hospes comesque Corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca Palidula rigida nudula Nec ut Soles dubis jocos FAB XXXII Phoebus Boreas and the Traveller BEtwixt Phoebus and Boreas arose once a Dispute which of them was of greatest strength The tryal whereof was at last agreed to be made on a Traveller whom they saw riding along the