The PAINTER who pleafed No body and Every body.

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FABLE XXV.

The SCOLD and the PARROT.

FABLE XXVI.

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107

The PERSIAN, the SUN, and the CLOUD.

117

The SETTING-DOG and the PARTRIDGE.

FABLE

The Univerfal APPARITION.

FABLE XXXII.

The two OwLs and the SPARROW.

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The BARLY-Mow and the DUNGHN.

FABLE XXXVI.

PYTHAGORAS d the COUNTRYMAN.

FABLE XXXVII.

133

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The FARMER'S WIFE and the RAVEN.

139

FABLE XXXVIII.

The TURKEY and the ANT.

143

FABLE

The CUR, the HORSE, and the SHEPHERD'S DOG. 175

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G.Van Gucht Sculp.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

FABLE S

The SHEPHERD and the PHILOSOPHER.

R

EMOTE from cities liv'd a Swain,

Unvex'd with all the cares of gain,

His head was filver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him fagė;

In fummer's heat and winter's cold
He fed his flock and pen'd the fold,
His hours in chearful labour flew,

Nor envy nor ambition knew;

His wifdom and his honest fame
Through all the country rais'd his name.
A deep Philofopher (whofe rules
Of moral life were drawn from schools)
The Shepherd's homely cottage fought,
And thus explor'd his reach of thought.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books confum'd the midnight oil?
Haft thou old Greece and Rome furvey'd,
And the vaft fenfe of Plato weigh'd?
Hath Socrates thy foul refin'd,

And haft thou fathom'd Tully's mind?
Or, like the wife Ulyffes thrown

By various fates on realms unknown,