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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55677	The Parable of the dove being a review of the late controversie between the blackbirds and the magpies, tending to an amicable accommodation of all the differences which at present disturb the feather'd nations.		1691 (1691)	Wing P322; ESTC R7351	5,103	6

THE PARABLE OF THE DOVE BEING A Review of the late Controversie between the BLACK-BIRDS and the MAGPIES tending to an Amicable Accommodation of all the Differences which at present disturb the Feather'd Nations I Won't rail at Parables because I 'm writing one my self and how silly soever 't is like to be it can't be worse than other things which have extremely pleas'd some sorts of People This I 'm sure of that with Fables or without 'em when the World is weary of quarrelling 't will be quiet in its own defence Whether this be the lucky time or no I can't tell but am resolv'd rather to venture a Broken Head o' both Sides to make my Country-men Friends than either bett on either Side for the sake of a little nasty Profit or stand still and laugh at both while they knock out one another's Brains and save their Enemies the labour 'T is no News to those who have consulted the new Virtuoso-Maps that there lie several little Worlds or if you please Airy Islands between this World and that in the Moon where the Birds you must know us'd to call in and bait when tired with their Flight thither at the end of our Winter 'T was in one of these little Worlds fix'd in a very temperate Region some where or other between the two Tropicks that the Eagles kept their Royal Court in an old white Rock by the side of a curious River where their Races had been setled and ruled the rest of the Birds for several Ages who never dar'd miss calling in there and doing 'em Homage in their passage to or from the Airy Regions Once upon a time then to observe the venerable form of our Great Grandmothers it so fell out that the then regnant Eagle thinking it below him to match with any of his Subjects sent to the Vulture's Court for a Mate which Opportunity the Family of the Vultures most readily embrac'd hoping thereby in time to get a Claw in the Eagle's Dominions or at least preserve his own which he had formerly usurp'd from the Predecessors of the Eagle and accordingly sent one of the subt'lest of all his Family who in time wrought so much on the Affections of her Royal Mate that nothing was transacted in the Council of the Birds without her Privity and Direction Vast Flocks of Vultures flew daily over who being encourag'd by so great a Patroness seduced not a few of the Subjects of the Eagle and arriv'd to such Insolence in a neighbouring World under his Dominion which from the multitude of Hawks there was first call'd Jernia and since Hibernia that at a Signal given they massacr'd all the Birds who were loyal to the Eagle making no difference between blackbirds and Magpyes but wrung off their Necks and tore 'em to pieces firing their Nests and breaking all their Eggs in the most barbarous manner that ever was heard of pretending the Eagle's Authority for their so doing And this indeed whatever else may be alledg'd was the main Cause of those dreadful Wars which not long after arose in this little World to the destruction of many thousands of its feather'd Inhabitants the Magpyes and Blackbirds with all the rest siding with that Party which their Inclinations or Interest led 'em most to favour while the Gaulless Dove who truly lov'd his Country and was Friend to all Sides sate alone in his Louver and deplot'd the common Calamity Nor did the dreadful Confusion these Dissentions produc'd end in any thing less than the Destruction of the Eagle banishing all his Progeny and setting up a Commonwealth of the Birds instead of the ancient Monarchy by which they had been so long govern'd and which seem'd much more agreeable to the Genius of the Airy Inhabitants who generally believ'd that Jupiter himself had set the Eagles over 'em tho at the bottom they had been only chosen Kings by general Consent and for the Good of the Whole But the Birds had not been long in this Condition before a cunning old Stork who had been formerly a General of the Blackbirds against the Magpyes and the Eagle being grown too strong as well as too cunning for the rest of the silly Birds and having none to oppose him usurp'd the Throne of the murther'd Eagle enjoying all the Power which he had before without the invidious Name and with his dreadful Bill and sharp Claws frighting the Parliament of the Birds from their most steady Resolves and tearing all their Charters to pieces huffing all the Worlds about him as well as his own and making the very Vultures tremble For to give the Devil his due 't was a Bird both of Policy and Valour and had the Eagles themselves after their Restoration in some things follow'd his Steps their Government had been in all probability much more firm and happy Yet after all 't was discover'd by the rest of the Birds that the Stork 's pretences of Love to his Country were confuted by his palpable Endeavours to raise himself and his Family upon their Ruins setting up a more absolute Tyranny than ever was practis'd by the Race of the Eagles On this the Birds began to consult against him his Government every Day grew weak and tottering which together with the suddain Death of one of his young ones so struck to his Heart for the Stork is a very affectionate Bird that in the highth of all his Glory he on the suddain dropp'd off his Perch and died the Blackbirds generally affirming he was poison'd and the Magpyes telling the World the Devil fetch'd him away in a Whirl-wind whereas in truth he e'en fairly dy'd for want of Breath as well as all other Birds After his Departure the Birds soon fell into a terrible Confusion which oblig'd 'em at last to re-call the banish'd Eagles and re-instate him in the Throne of his Ancestors But not to meddle with Affairs during his Reign any more than he himself did who was indeed more earnestly employed to find out the finest Birds in his Territory Peacocks Pheasants Birds of Paradice c. than either the Magpies or Blackbirds at his sudden and expected Death the unnatural Ostrich contrary to the sense of two or three Parliaments of Birds ascended the Throne But long he had not enjoyed the Sovereignty before he publickly sided with the Vultures and brought in whole Flights of them the Kites the Owls and other ravenous Birds to the utter destruction both of Magpies and Blackbirds tho to the latter of these he pretended the greatest kindness while the good-natur'd Dove was concern'd for the main and feared the common Ruin And here it may be worth the while to enquire into the occasion of the difference between the Magpies and the Blackbirds and ' was a wise one if you knew all no better nor worse than on account of their Colours the Blackbirds thought the Magpies too fine and gaudy and would for that reason have pulled out all their white Feathers as marks of