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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

without my knowledge or a much better hand hath added that Fair cypher whereupon he call'd again for pen and ink and added a new cypher which made the same 500 Crowns Now said he to the poor Widow go and receive all this money and pay your Chamber Rent in the first place and see if yow can provide some honest Match to your daughter by giving her the Residue that she may not become a whore FAB CXXXI Page 121. It may also afford this Morality That some times favor is s●…owen where no good is exspected for who would have looked for any good at the hands of a serpent thus a barbarous Prince restored King Lysimachus after he had yeelded himselfe and Kingdome for want of Water and a turkish Prince long afterwards did no less to a Greek Emperour FAB CXXXIII Page 123. Here he might have mentioned that poeticall storie of Hippomenes Atalanta for the cunning Man did out witt the swist-running Maid by throwing three golden Apples out of the way at several times which she stepping a side to take up thinking for all that to overtake him and as it were flee before him yet his policy at last obtaineth the prize For Tardus in via pr●…venit Cursoreni extra viam FAB CXXXVIII Page 126. Here it might have been told that a man gave admirable good Counsel one day in the Senat of Sparta in a very weighty mater which concerned the honour of the state but in regard he was a verie profligat person it was advi●…ed that one of the gravest of the Senatours should the next day propose the same expedient in other words that it might not reflect any dishonour o●… the state that such a vile person as the first suggester had been so much regarded FAB XLII Page 12●… Here he might have mentioned the exclamation of Lysimachus that great King of Thrace and one of the Captaines of Alexander the great O! what an excellent Kingdom have I lost for a litle fleshly pleasure this he spoke when being straitned by a barbarous Prince he was forced to yeeld himself with His whole Armie because they were like to pyne with thrist where they were couped in no doubt the intrinsick value of a Cup of water is farr below that of a Kingdome yet as Necessity hath no Law so the Belly hath no Ears FAB CLVI Page 141. The Trag●…dy of Zeno Emperour of the East may be termed a parallel to this fable but with disadvantage to the Imperiall husband whose wife caused burie him alive in on of his fitts of the Epilepsie which befel him frequently by his excessive drinking so that his Unnaturall spouse suffered him to starve to death in His sepulcher for want both of meat and drink and though he cryed most ruthfully to be releived from that dark prison when he came to a sense of himselfe yet the Inhumane Hagg would not permit it that a younger and much handsomer Man might succeed him both in his bed and Throne and that was Anastasius the principall Secretarie of State FAB CLVIII Page 142. This Fable is grounded on a Fable viz. That Swans sing especially before their Death But who soever desires to see the Nullity of this common Tradition let them consult Dr. Brown in his Vulgar Errors FAB CLXIII Page * I follow the Mistake of the Printer 137. A generous Man is so far from insulting over the miserable suppose he be a dead Enemy that He is rather prone to water the Adversaries Horse with his Tears Therefore I am apt to believe that Lucan in His Poems was both uncharitable and Injurious to the great Caesar by insinuating it was for joy he weeped over Pompey the great 's head when it was presented unto him I●… Caesar being one of the most clement Princes that ever reigned in this world givs us reason to conclude that the serious consideration of the sudden fall of Pompey from so great glorie into the power of some base slaves did draw abundance of Tears of real grief from the eyes of his Father-in-Law and I find it one of the greatest Reflections upon the honour of his grand Nephew Augustus Caesar that he should have caused cutt off the head of Brutus to be sent to Rome and laid at the feet of his uncles Statua even after Marc Antony had covered his dead Body with his own Purple Garment yet the same Augustus weept amain for the Death of Marc Antony if we believe Plutarch tho' He had been more injurious to his Family than ever Pompey had been to that of Iulius But Antigonus of Macedon the Son of K. Demetrius was much more generous than Augustus for when that restless spirit Pyrrhus the Epirot came to his 〈◊〉 and at 〈◊〉 tho' he had once dispossessed 〈◊〉 of his Kingdome and even at the time of his death was in war against him yet when the head of the famous 〈◊〉 was presented to him he was so farr from insulting over a dead enemie that he sharply rebuked some of his nearest relations for their insolencie and ordered both the h●…nd and body of his enemie to be given to his son that he might give his father honourable buriall Thus when Marcus A●…relius surnamed the Philosopher heard that his army had defeated the enemy and killed his rival and tho' he was apparently his competitor for the empire yet this meek and most clement Prince regrated unfeignedly that they had not brought him alive unto him that he might have tasted of his mercie The best parallel I find to this benign disposition was that of the royall Martyr K. Charles I. of great Britain who had the same mercifull sentiments in reference to The fate of the Hothames as we may perceive from a section of his incomparable Book so entituled But all the Roman Emperours were not so generous as this Antoni●… or Aurelius the Philosopher for long before his time Vitellins manifested a great deal of baseness in his deportment in reference to the dead souldiers of the defeated Armie of the Emperour Otho whose unburied and naked bodies he would needs fee and when it was told him that he would never be able to endure the noysome stench of them for they had been kill'd in the plains of Lombardy before Vetellius himselfe had crossed the Alpes that vile beast most ingenerously answered That there 〈◊〉 nothing so savoury to him as the smell of a dead enemy but especially of a Citizen notwithstanding his rivall Otho had cast hi●… a much fairer copy for tho' he might easily have recruited again yet he did voluntarily dispatch himselfe that he might ob●… the Effusion of any more Roman Blood suppose it were wholy of his enemy But 〈◊〉 Severus neither learned this generosity from Otho nor Marens ' Aurelius tho' they were both before him for having politicaly given the Title of 〈◊〉 to Calhinus in the North that he might not interrupt his Progress against Pescenius Niger in the East how soon he had