. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FADLE LIII. Ill. HERCULES AKD THE CARTER. As a clownish Fellow was driving his cartalong a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fastin the clay that the horses could not draw themout. Upon this, he fell a bawling and playingto Hercules to come and help him. Hercules,looking down from a cloud, bid him not liethere, like an idle rascal as he was, but get upand whip his horses stoutly, and clap hisshoulder to the wheel; adding, that this wasthe only way for him to obtain his assistance. APPLICATION. This fable shows us
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FADLE LIII. Ill. HERCULES AKD THE CARTER. As a clownish Fellow was driving his cartalong a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fastin the clay that the horses could not draw themout. Upon this, he fell a bawling and playingto Hercules to come and help him. Hercules,looking down from a cloud, bid him not liethere, like an idle rascal as he was, but get upand whip his horses stoutly, and clap hisshoulder to the wheel; adding, that this wasthe only way for him to obtain his assistance. APPLICATION. This fable shows us how vain and ill-ground-ed the expectations of those people are whoimagine they can obtain whatever they wantby importuning Heaven with their prayers; forit is so agreeable to the nature of the DivineBeing to be better pleased with virtuous actionsand an honest industry than idle prayers, thatit is a sort of blasphemy to say were the sentiments of honest good hea- 112 FABLE LIII. thens, who were strangers to all revealed reli-gion : but it is not strange that they should era
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