. Fables. rA BL K 5° WKtnt inv. FABLE XL,^he fivo Monkeys, r*! A HE iearnedy fall of inward pride, ^ The fops of outward (how deride;The fop, with learning at defiance,Scoffs ?x the .pedant and the fcicnce: The F yl B L E S. 151 1 hi: Dc/Jj a formal, fulcnin ilruttcr, 1 )cTpircs M(mfieur\ airs and Hutter ; Wliilc Morjieur mocks the formal fool, Who looks, and fpcaks, and walks by rule. Britain, a medley of the twain, A^ [>ert as Fnincty as grave as Spain, In fancy wifcr than the rcil, Laughs at them both, (j\ both the icll. I not the poets chiming clofc Cenhird, by all the fonb of
. Fables. rA BL K 5° WKtnt inv. FABLE XL,^he fivo Monkeys, r*! A HE iearnedy fall of inward pride, ^ The fops of outward (how deride;The fop, with learning at defiance,Scoffs ?x the .pedant and the fcicnce: The F yl B L E S. 151 1 hi: Dc/Jj a formal, fulcnin ilruttcr, 1 )cTpircs M(mfieur\ airs and Hutter ; Wliilc Morjieur mocks the formal fool, Who looks, and fpcaks, and walks by rule. Britain, a medley of the twain, A^ [>ert as Fnincty as grave as Spain, In fancy wifcr than the rcil, Laughs at them both, (j\ both the icll. I not the poets chiming clofc Cenhird, by all the fonb of profe ? While bards of quick imagination l^elpile the lleepy profe narration. laugh at apes, they men contemn , ] V ;• what arc we, but ape> to them ? Two Munkcys weiu to S(,utfjwark fair,J critic* liad a fourcr air. i They 152 FABLES. They forcd their way through • draggled folksjWho gapd to catch Jack-Puddings took their tickets for the got by chance the foremofl row. To fee their grave obferv
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