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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26505	Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538.; Avianus. Fabulae. English.; Astemio, Lorenzo. Fabulae. English.; Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459. Facetiae. English. Selections.	1692 (1692)	Wing A706; ESTC R6112	424,392	527

runs better in the Humour then it does in the Moral It lays before us the Unprofitable Vanity of a False Worship and gives us to Understand that the more zealous we are in a Wrong Way the Worse An Idol is an Abomination in the sight both of God and of Good Men and yet we are so to Govern our Selves even in the Transports of That Abhorrence as still to Preserve a Reverence for Religion it self in the very Indignation we Express for the Corruptions of it So that the License of this Buffoon went a little too far perhaps for there must be No Playing with Things Sacred nor Jesting as we say with Edge Tools We have the Moral of this Abandon'd Libertine up and down the World in a Thousand Several Shapes All People that Worship for Fear Profit or some other By End fall More or Less within the Intendment of this Emblem It is a kind of a Conditional Devotion for Men to be Religious no longer then they can Save or Get by 't Put forth thy Hand now says the Devil to the Almighty in the Case of Iob and Touch All that he hath and he will Curse thee to thy Face This Good Man Lost All and for an Example of Patience and Resignation to Future Ages The Lord gave says he and the Lord hath Taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Here was No Dashing of the Two Tables one against the Other for an Office or an Egg at Easter as the Fellow serv'd his Idol here The Whole Summe of the Moral is in short Comprized in the Old Saying He that serves God for Mony will serve the Devil for Better Wages FAB CVI. A Dog Invited to Supper A Gentleman Invited a Friend to Supper with him and the Gentleman's Dog was so well Bred as to Invite the Friends Dog to come for Company The Dog came at his Hour and into the Kitchin he went to see what Good Cheer was toward But as he was there Wagging his Tayle and Licking his Lips at the thought of what a Meale he was like to make on 't the Roguy Cook got Slyly behind him and Spoil'd the Jest. He took him up by the Tayle at Unawares and after a Turn or Two in the Air flung him out of the Window So soon as ever the Poor Devil had Recover'd the Squelch away he Scampers Bawling like Mad with I know not how many Prick-Ear'd Currs at the Heels of him to know how he lik'd his Wellcome Why truly says he they have given me as much Drink as my Skin will hold and it has made me so Light-Headed I could not find the Right Way out of the House again The MORAL Love Me Love my Dog says the old Proverb and there 's somewhat of Good Manners as well as of Good Nature in 't for there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master's sake REFLEXION IT looks well among Friends when Masters and Servants are all of a piece The Dog invites his Guest and the Cook throws him out of the Window and in so doing the Man shew'd himself the Arranter Curr of the Two for it was against Hospitality and Good Manners so to do There is a Duty of Tenderness and Good Nature even toward Those Animals But when it came to the Worst at last the Dog had the Wit we see to make the Best of a Bad Game Though 't was an unmannerly and an Ill-Natur'd Frolick of the Cook all this while for the Ill Usage of a Servant is some sort of Affront to his Master FAB CVII An Eagle and a Man A Man took an Eagle Pelted her Wings and put her among his Hens Somebody came and bought This Eagle and presently New Feather'd her She made a Flight at a Hare Truss'd it and brought it to her Benefactor A Fox perceiving This came and gave the Man a piece of Good Councell Have a care says Reynard of putting too much Confidence in This Eagle for she 'll go neare one time or other else to take You for a Hare Upon This Advice the Man Plum'd the Eagle once again The MORAL Persons and Humours may be Iumbled and Disguis'd but Nature is like Quicksilver that will never be Kill'd REFLEXION BIRDS of Prey will be Birds of Prey still at what rate soever you Treate ' em So that there 's no Trusting of them For when they have no longer a Power to do Mischief the Will yet Remains Here 's a Forc'd Moral for a Forc'd Fable For the Fancy of it is against Nature and the Fiction does not consist with it self Now to My Thinking This Application of it lyes the Fairer of the Two i e. That the Gratitude of the Eagle in bringing the Hare to her Master may serve to shew us that the Wildest and Fiercest of Creatures may be Sweetn'd and Reclaim'd by Benefits FAB CVIII A Father and Sons A Countryman that liv'd Handsomly in the World Himself upon his Honest Labour and Industry was desirous his Sons should do so After Tim and being now upon his Death-Bed My Dear Children says he I reckon my self bound to tell you before I depart that there is a Considerable Treasure Hid in my Vineyard Wherefore pray be sure to Dig and search Narrowly for 't when I am gone The Father Dyes and the Sons fall immediately to Work upon the Vineyard They Turn'd it up over and over and not one Penny of Mony to be found there but the Profit of the Next Vintage Expounded the Riddle The MORAL Good Councell is the Best Legacy a Father can leave to a Child and it is still the Better when it is so wrapt up as to Beget a Curiosity as well as an Inclination to follow it REFLEXION THERE' 's No Wealth like That which comes by the Blessing of God upon Honest Labour and Warrantable Industry Here 's an Incitement to an Industrious Course of Life by a Consideration of the Profit the Innocence and the Virtue of such an Application There is one Great Comfort in Hand beside the Hope and Assurance of more to come The very Exercise procures us Health and Consequently All the Pleasures and Satisfactions that Attend it We have the Delight of Seeing and Reaping the Fruit of our own Labour and the Inward Joy of Contemplating the Benedictions of Another World that shall be superadded to the Advantages of This. Aesop very well understood that Naked Lessons and Precepts have Nothing the Force that Images and Parables have upon our Minds and Affections Beside that the very Study to Unriddle a Mystery furnishes the Memory with more Tokens to Remember it by A Tale in Emblem sinks Deeper where the Life and Spirit of it is Insinuated by a kind of Biass and Surprize It was a Touch of Art in the Father to Cover his Meaning in such a manner as to Create a Curiosity and an Earnest Desire in his Sons to find it out And it was also a Treble Advantage to them besides for there