And when a lady's in the cafe, You know, all other things give place. The Goat remark'd her pulfe was high, The Sheep was feeble, and complain'd His fides a load of wool fuftain'd: Said he was flow, confefs'd his fears; For hounds eat Sheep as well as Hares. She now the trotting Calf addrefs'd, In this important care engage? END OF THE FIRST PART TH ADVERTISEMENT. HESE FABLES were finished by Mr. GAY, and intended for the prefs, a fhort time before his death; when they were left, with his other papers, to the care of his noble friend and patron the Duke of QUEENSBERRY. His Grace has accordingly permitted them to the pref, and they are here printed from the originals in the author's own handwriting. We hope they will please equally with his former FABLES, though moftly on fubjects of a graver and more political turn. They will certainly fhew him to have been (what he esteemed the best character) a man of a truly honeft heart, and a fincere lover of his country., PART THE SECOND. FABLE I. The DoG and the Fox. то A LAWYER. Ι KNOW you Lawyers can, with ease, That language, by your fkill made pliant, When When you peruse the clearest case, Hence is the bar with fees fupply'd, And now we're well fecur'd by law, 'Till the next brother find a flaw. Read o'er a Will. Was't ever known, Sagacious PORTA's skill could trace So |