Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologisto with morals and reflecions by Roger L'Estronge

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1692 Excerpt: ...or Vertue, by the Morality, or the Immorality of the Matter, so much as by the Stamp that is set upon't by Men of President and Figure. What's more Familiar then an Ostentation of Wickedness, where Impiety has the Reputation of Vertue? As in the Excesles of Wine, and Women, and the Vanity of bearing up against all the Laws of God and Man. When Lewdnesi conies once to be a Falhion, it has the Credit in the World that other Fashions have; as we see Many times an Affectation even of Deformity it self, where some Exemplary Defect has brought that Deformity to be a Mode. The Fancy of This Dog was somewhat like the French Womans Freak, that stood up for the Honour of her Family: Her Coat was Quarter'd, (he said, with the Arms of France; which was so far True, that she had the Flower-de-Luce Stamp'd, we must not fay Branded upon her Shoulder. FAB. Two tftiertttf and a #eT. m yA, I TWO Friends that were Travelling together, had the Fortune to Meet a 'Bear upon the Way. They found there Was no Running for't. So the One Whips up a Tree, and the Other throws himself Flat with his Face upon the Ground. The Bear coraes directly up to Him, Muzzles, and Smells to him, puts his Nose to his Mouth, and to his Ears, and at last, taking for Granted that Was only a Carcass, there he leaves him. The Beter was no sooner gone, but Down comes his Companion, and ask'd him, what it was the 'Bear Whisper'd him in the Ear. He bad me have a Care, fays he, how I keep Company with those, that when they find themselves upon a Pinch, will leave their Friends in the Lurch. The MORAL. Every Man for Himself, and God for us Alt: R E F LlE X I O N: THIS Fable has in a Few Words a Great many Useful, andlnfbuctive Morals. The Man upon the Tree Preaches te us upon the Text of Charity tegins ar Home...