1. To his Highnefs WILLIAM Duke of Cum-

berland,

The Lion, the Tyger, and the Traveller,

2. The Spaniel and the Cameleon,

3. The Mother, the Nurfe, and the Fairy,

4. The Eagle, and the Affembly of Animals,

5. The Wild Boar and the Ram,

6. The Mifer and Plutus,

7. The Lion, the Fox, and the Geese,

8. The Lady and the Wafp,

9. The Bull and the Mastiff,

10. The Elephant and the book feller,

11. The Peacock, the Turkey, and the Goofe,

12. Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus,

13. The Tame Stag,

14. The Monkey who had feen the World,,

16. The Pin and the Needle

15. The Philofopher and the Pheasants,.

17. The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf,

18. The Painter who pleased nobody and every

body,

19. The Lion and the Cub,

20. The Old Hen and the Cock,

21. The Rat-catcher and the Cats,

22. The Goat without a Beard,

23. The Old Woman and her Cats,

24. The Butterfly and the Snail,

25. The Scold and the Parrot,

26. The Cur and the Mastiff,

27. The Sick Man and the Angel,

28. The Perfian, the Sun, and the Cloud,

29. The Fox, at the Point of Death,

30. The Setting Dog and the Partridge,

31, The Univerfal Apparition,

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32. The

Fab.

32. The Two Owls and the Sparrow,

33. The Courtier and Proteus,

34. The Maftiffs,

35. The Barley-mow and the Dunghill,

36. Pythagoras and the Countryman,

37. The Farmer's Wife and the Raven,

38. The Turkey and the Ant,

39. The Father and Jupiter

40. The Two Monkeys,

41. The Owl and the Farmer,

42. The Jugglers,

43. The Council of Horfes,

44. The Hound and the Huntfman,

45. The Poet and the Rofe

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46. The Cur, the Horfe, and the Shepherd's Dog 116

2. The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds, 137

7. The Countryman and Jupiter,

8. The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly,

9. The Jackall, Leopard, and other Beafts,

10. The Degenerate Bees,

14. The Owl, the Swan, the Cock, the Spider,

the Afs, and the Farmer,

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15. The Cook-maid, the Turnfpit, and the Ox, 220

16. The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-

worm.

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INTRO

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INTRODUCTION

то THE

FA B L E S:

PART THE FIRST.

The SHEPHERD and the PHILOSOPHER.

R

EMOTE from cities liv'd a fwain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was filver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him fage;

In fummer's heat, and winter's cold,
He fed his flock and penn'd the fold;
His hours in chearful labour flew,
Nor envy nor ambition knew:
His wisdom and his honeft 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 vast fenfe of PLATO weigh'd?
Haft SOCRATES thy foul refin'd,

And haft thou fathom'd TULLY's mind?
Or, like the wife ULYSSES, thrown,
By various fates, on realms unknowr,
Haft thou through many cities ftray'd,
Their customs, laws, and manners weigh'd
The shepherd modeftly reply'd,

I ne'er the paths of learning try'd;
Nor have I roam'd in foreign parts
To read mankind, their laws and arts;
For man is practis'd in difguife,
He cheats the most difcerning eyes;
Who by that fearch shall wiser grow,
When we ourselves can never know?

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