. Fables. with thirft of blood. Spurning the ground the monarch ftood,And roard aloud. Sufpend the a whole fkin, go, deep to night;Or tell me, ere the battle wrongs provoke thee to engage?Is it ambition fires thy breafl,Or avarice that neer can refl ?From thefc alone unjufily fprings,The world-deftroying wrath of Kings. The FABLES. 35 The Uirly Mallirt thu^ my bolum glory heroes of eternal name,Whom poets fing, I fight for :Tiic butchers fpirit-ftirring mindTt) war my youth mc to heroic dcc-J,?JLi;ht mc to conquer or
. Fables. with thirft of blood. Spurning the ground the monarch ftood,And roard aloud. Sufpend the a whole fkin, go, deep to night;Or tell me, ere the battle wrongs provoke thee to engage?Is it ambition fires thy breafl,Or avarice that neer can refl ?From thefc alone unjufily fprings,The world-deftroying wrath of Kings. The FABLES. 35 The Uirly Mallirt thu^ my bolum glory heroes of eternal name,Whom poets fing, I fight for :Tiic butchers fpirit-ftirring mindTt) war my youth mc to heroic dcc-J,?JLi;ht mc to conquer or to bleed. Curll dog, the Bull replyd, no moreI wonder at thy third of gore,I r thou (beneath a biiteher traind,W hofc hands with cruelty arc flaind,His daily murders in tliy view,)Mud, like thy tutor, blood then thy fate. Widi goring woundAt once he lifts him from the ground,Aloft the fprawling hero flic?,Mangled he falli, he howls and dies. 1- ABLE 36 FABLES. i?iBr«:s^ \ .m % ITlirWIIfTlIIt. // y^u/?/lM^ FABLE X. ^he Elephant and the Bookseller,rnp^HE man, who with undaunted toils ^ Sails unknown feas to unknown foils,With various wonders feafts his fight:What flranger wonders does he write! We FABLES. 37 \V c rcaJ, and in dcrcription viewCrcaturcb which Adnm never knew ;For, when we rillc no contradidion,It prompts the tongue to deal in things that llartlc mc or yoii»I yjant rtre llran^c j yet may he doubts tliat elephants arc foundI-^or fciencc and lor Wi\[\: rencnvnd ?llorri records their llrcngth of parts,.tent of thought and lldll in arts;I low they perform the laws decrees,And five the iLite the •hang-mans liow by travel underfbndThe language of anotlK-r thofc, who qucftion this report,To Plinys ancient page low Icarnd was that fagacious breed!Who now (like them) the gnrA can read ! As R FABLES. As one of thcfc, in days of yore,Rummagd a fhop of learning like our modern dealers, mindingOnly the marg
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