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The fable of the sun and frogs, in elegant Latin verse, applyed to the present state of affairs between the French and Dutch. With three several translations in English, by three several hands. The first nearer the Latin; the other two allowing themselves a greater liberty of phansie.
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provoke him and his Speed To stratagem and force they streight proceed Attempt to trash his Wheels and plunge his Steeds With unexpected Bogs and heap'd up Weeds Mud too their Dam unnatural Brats provoke To rise ' gainst their bright Siré in slimy smoke In smoke so thick and dark they nothing doubt The Day and the Day-maker 't would blot out The angry God to punish this proud Shoal Burns where he warm'd with his Celestial Coal Sulphureous Thunderbolts their Vapors prove And on themselves in stony Tempests move In vain they lurk in hopes the Storm would cease Or in course Croaking Language sue for Peace Sol deaf to all round in bright Triumphs hurld Consumes their Flouds and conquers their low World Frogs now and Toads like hiew'd alike both fare Both Boil'd Roast Bakt in their own Mud-paste are Both carbonabed and both you might see For Crows and Kites cook'd into Frigacie One grac'd in Front with Wisdom's Jewel too At last bespake thus her expiring Crew We now ungrateful find our Doom and Curse A Plague to Princes to our Selves a worse Punisht for Crimes great as our Patrons grown Let 's dread the Height and Vengeance of their Throne The third Translation Rise and Support to Me ye ow And so shall do your Ovorthrow Sen. Med. The SUN and FROGS THe Fenny Folk from noisome Slime and Dung Mixt Excrements of Earth and Water sprung Through the rich Bounty of his kindly Ray Who rules the spacious Empire of the Day Enlarge like hi◠the Bounds of their Command Than he more dreadful grow at Sea and Land At Land ev'n Beasts Strangers till then to fear Tremble when they their horrid croakings hear Their Hunger which they dare not satissie Forget and from best neighb'ring Pastures flie Wild to their Dens seeking Protection there And finding it from Danger not from Fear Tame to their Thickets and there trembling lay 'em Fearing their trembling too least it betray ' em At Sea their numinous Shoals more dreadful grow There oft they fight as oft there conquer too Nor common Enemies alone engage Tunnies and Whales too feel their Martial Rage Whales that of long unquestion'd Right make Claim As the sole Soveraigns of the liquid Main Here Erogs now Lording it ingrate become To their first Parent and best Patron Sun Behold his Glory with invidious Eyes And his fair Beams smut with foul Calumnies If Indian Brine his Rising Forehead Laves If he dive setting in Iberian Waves If to the Royal Lyon's Den he bring The choicest Tribute of his flowerie Spring Or if he last from his exalted Noon Dimme the pale Visage of the Horned Moon Which way so e're he move the Frogs complain Croaking they fret and fretting croak again As if his fierie Beams about he hurl'd To burn and waste not warm and cheer the World Then in full Period charge him stop his Race Threat'ning Revenge if he but change his Place Hearing not heeding Threats beneath his fear On still he drives drives on in full Carreer Doth then the Sun our Threats thus slight say they Too high to stoope and too proud to obey In this blind Rage with restless Feet they stir Water and Slime and putrid Reeds and Mire Till a thick sullen Vapour doth arise And with substantial Darkness blacks the skies What ye ill Natur'd Vermine what quoth he Can such poor pievish Spleen think ye reach me Can your dark Fogs me of my Lustre spoil This speaks with half a Frown and half a Smile Your selves below ye cloud◠I still enjoy Above my Native and Essential Day But so with Envie hath it us'd to fare To drink of its own Poison the best share And so shall yours The Weapons you now form Their fatal Points on your own Heads shall turn With that he calls home all his fierie Rays And violent Cold the Ai'r's mid Region sways Which o're that new made Cloud doth straight prevail Condenses first then moulds it into Hail And in a Trice a smart swift stonie show Doth on those base ungrateful Vermine pour Who now their Wounded Bodies hide in vain In vain seek shelter from the pelting Rain Whether they dive in Mud or sculk in Weeds Or crawl from Danger under batterr'd Reeds The SVN now glowing with revengeful Ire Their nastie Ponds dreigns with his fiercest Fire Till boild and roast the Vermine each where lay To Crows and Kites a sweet and easie Prey When a grave Matron that might well have been For her sage Wisdome their illustrious Queen Had they not been Free States ' midst all the Frogs That now lay gasping round the parched Bogs Her last breath forming in fit dying Tone Was heard their so sad Fate thus to bemoan How Just the Gods are how ungrateful We How well deserving such our Destinie Who War would wage ' gainst such both Friends and Ods Oh henceforth learn to fear not dare the GODS FINIS
THE FABLE OF THE Sun and Frogs IN ELEGANT LATIN VERSE Applyed To the present State of Affairs BETWEEN THE FRENCH and DUTCH WITH Three several TRANSLATIONS in ENGLISH by three several Hands The first nearer the Latin the other two allowing themselves a greater Liberty of Phansie LONDON Printed for William Gilbert Bookseller at the half Mooâ—… in Pauls Church-yard 1672. Appendix ad Fabulas Phoedri ex Bibliotheca Leidensi Servare potui Perdere an possim rogas Sen. Med. SOL RANAE RAnae Paludis Incolae ambiguum Genus Limoque cretum Res in immensum suas Favore Solis auxerant Etiam Boves Vicina circum qui tondebant Gramina Ipsasque Ripis pepulerunt Metu Feras Quinse profundo credere ausae Gurgiti Facto Siluros atque Thynnos Agmine Et provocarant saepe saepe Vicerant Hinc Fastus illas cepit Superbia Majusque Crimen Gratiarum Oblivio Patroni Solis invidere Gloriae Ingrata Gens occepit liventibus Oculis tueri Mundo adoratum Jubar Nec se protervis abstinent Convitiis Nam sive ad Indi Littora obvertit Rotas Equos Ibero sive lavit Flumine Sive arduam Leonis ascendit Domum Lunaeve Radiis Cornua aspersit suis Ranae coaxant Clamore incondito Queruntur omnia perdere Ultrices simul Minantur Iras ni stet immotus Polo Pergenti Curru flammeo non segnius Lustrare Terras perfidae tentant Viam Obstruere Fundo ab imo Caenosos Lacus Vlvasque putres Solo resides Aquas Pedibus petulcis commovent Coelo Vapor Consurgit ater Diem Caligine Extinguit almum Risit Astrorum Parens Et ista Vestrum Tela recident in Caput Procaces inquit Bestiae Ergo colligit Radios Viresque totas inque Fulmina Vapores nubilos densamque Grandinem Momento vertit miseras tristi opprimit RANAS Procella Frustra Juncis Corpora Certant opacis tegere frustra sub Luto Defossae sperant publica Strage eripi SOL Radiis haurit Cuncta ipsas Ignibus Absumit Vndas RANAE semiustae crepant Milvisque Corvis dulce praebent Pabulum Quarum una fertur caeteris Consultior Dixisse Moriens Jam Poenas exsolvimus Quae bene de nobis meritis reddidimus Mala. At vos Nepotes discite Vereri DEOS Juxta Exemplar Editum Amstelodami ad Insigne Josua The first Translation An Appendix to Phoedrus his Fables as it was lately taken out of the Library at Leyden I could preserve ye do ye doubt Whether I now can root ye out Sen. Med. The SUN and FROGS THe Frogs those Fennish People as from Earth And Water mixt in Mud deriving Birth So in both Elements Commerce maintain From this to that from that to this again Persia's old God and France's new Device The Sun with friendly Beam these multiplies Nor their Estate augments less than themselves Till high and mighty grow th' amphibion Elves Dreadful at Sea and Land Here round their Lakes Fear tame Beasts wild and wild Beasts wilder makes There Tunnies they and Whales oft set upon Tunnies and Whales as oft they overcome Hence swell'd with Pride and a vain self-conceit Their noblest Benefactors they forget Yea from blew Eyes dart envious looks upon The glitt'ring Grandeur of their Patron SVN And like base Mud in terms of vile Disgrace Throw vile Aspersions in his glorious Face For whether he to the Rich Indies drive His flaming Chariot or his Horses dive In the Iberian Floud or else resort Unto the Princely Lion's Royal Court Or last of all his native Shine display Upon the growing Moon her borrow'd Ray These croaking Creatures in their uncouth strain That all before him he destroys complain Bidding his Sunship threaten'd Vengeance fear Unless with speed he stop his swift Career Such threats no checks are to his Steeds but spurs To hurry on his fiery Chariots course This seen these treach'rous Vermin strive in vain Themselves to give stop to his whirling Wain With busie Feet their muddy Ponds they trouble And make foul Water every where to bubble Among the putrid Reeds streight to the Skies From pudly Marshes doth a dark Fog rise Effacing Day Sol laughing at their Toil These weapons saith shall on your selves recoil Poor peevish Animals Then Arms he all His strongest Beams which in full Bodies fall Among those Fogs so in a trice transforms Such power have Gods all to impet'ous Storms Of sulph'ry Thunderbolts and ratling Hail Then doth with these the wretched Frogs assail In vain they shade and shelter at this need From broken Bulrush seek and batter'd Reed In vain in Water dive delve into Mud Which nor such suppliants nor themselves long could Preserve from Ruine by such raging heat Wherewith the incensed King of Stars then beat In upon both Their own or other Mens The Dutch ne're dreyn'd as Phaebus these Frogs Fens So 's the House ruin'd where the Traytor 's found Storm'd 〈…〉 to ground A Feast of Boyl'd Rost Bakt now smell 't invites Lips for such Lettied Ravenous Crows and Kites When a grave Frog much wiser than the Rout Midst her expiring Kindred all about Was heard to fay This this just Heaven we feel For so much good repaid with so much ill You of our Tribe who in remote Abodes Survive this Day learn to revere the GOD'S According to the Copy Printed at Amsterdam at the Sign of the Josua The second Translation High and Mighty I who made ye From that Height can now degrade ye Sen. Med. The SUN and FROGS THe speckled Tribe sprung from the womb of slime Their Parent SVN proclaim in croaking rhime Their Birth and store own from his gentle Ray And to his dance about the World they play They play and sing with golden Throats an Ode To the proud Persians and their common God Whose kindly influence rais'd their daring Heads From no less mean and low than loathsome Beds Rais'd 'em so high that when Alarms they sound Tame and wild Beasts are scar'd from neighb'ring Ground And the Goliahs of the watry Field To their puissant sholes oft forc'd to yield Hence swelling less with Venom than with Pride Their mean Original they fain would hide Creatures of Sun and Slime proudly forget The one ungratefully the other treat Croak in harsh numbers from their noisome Seat Till hoarse with wrangling at indulgent heat If unconfin'd to their impoyson'd Streams They vye not circuit with those heavenly Beams Let but the SVN wheel to the Indian Brine The large Iberus or the parched Line The Prince of Stars visit that Lion's Den That 's King of the best Beasts and bravest Men Or let him proudly drown the Turkish Moon With vaster Torrents of his Lustier Noon Loudly they clamor that he doth none good Because not shining only on their Mud. Nay Tyrant like merely to make him sport That with insulting Beams he doth all hurt With spiteful Taunts revengeful Threats they mix Unless in unmov'd Poise his Chariot fix But finding Threats