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A41556	Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.	Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1284; ESTC R215162	66,798	60

Emperour repented and being fore put to it by the Pope who had caused Germany fall off from Him begg'd the Advice of his ●…inded old Favourite how He should come by Money to levy an Army sufficient to oppose his Enemies this blind Devil inwardly glad of the Occasion of Reveng●… answered that a Tree is best cloven with a Wedge of its own Timber and since said he it 's a Church-Man that hath so straitned You and impoverished You with a long lasting War It 's my opinion that You may lawfully seize upon all the Utensils of all the Churches of Naples meaning the golden and si●…ver Chalices Ewers c. and make ready money of them but how soon as He was certainly inform'd that this hellish Counsell was put in Practice then He solemnly declared that now He was sufficiently avenged for his two eyes because he was sure GOD would not fail to inflict some extraordinary Judgement on Him that had robbed his God so frequently Thus this wicked Councelour directly acted the part of the Devil by first tempting then accusing yet he did not live to hear the Event of his Prediction for He had no sooner uttered his insernal Io Paea●… but he dashed his Head against the Wall to prevent a more tormenting Dea●…h But what He foretold shortly came to pass for the Emperour became very despicable and was at last most unnaturaly poysoned by a Bastard of his own His sad Destiny was much to be pitied for He was a Prince of extraordinary Knowledge and a great Justiciary and like another Iu●…nian He made many excellent Laws which are subjoined to the Corpus Iuris Civilis as for any exorbitances he committed during his most troublesom time I bel●…eve i●… Solomon had been his Contemporary and seen how He had been vexed and perplexed with diverse very ill natured Popes He would thus have apologized for Him that Oppression makes a wise Man mad FAB LXXIV Page 7●… Here He might have told that Vitellius the Roman Emperour was a greater Fool in the other extreme for He prohibited and that u●…der the Pain of Death any at ●…me to say that V●…an was advancing toward the City with a formidable Army so that His u●…e Negligence and most foolish Security even when the Enemy was at the G●…s brought that sensual E●…re to an unpitied tho' a most ignominious Death FAB LXXV Page 74. Here he might have mentioned the pertinent Answer of the School-Master who would not dispute his best with Him who commanded 〈◊〉 for it was the Emperour Adrian who was ●…o vain as to fancie an Excellency in all the liberal Arts and in Grammar among the rest neither in my Judgement was that in ●…irect reproof which a Musician gave to Philip of Macedon for contending with him in his own Art void of Prudence when He thus spoke to the Father of the great Alexander The Gods ●…orbid that your Ma●…esty should ever be brought so low as to know these triffleing maters better than I do Sure I am that the Master Carv●…r of K. I●…mes the 〈◊〉 of great Britan was more pedantick than they both for haveing enquired of his Majesty if He would have the Wing of a Rabbet The K. merrily answered Did you ever see a ●…abbet flee To which the Carv●…r most foolishly replyed that the Wing o●… a Rabbet was as proper language in England as the ●…arther Legg of a Capon in Scotland for which sawcie Competition the King never rested till He turned him out of his Office Here the ●…esentment was greater tho' the Crime less than that of a School-Master at Alexandria in Aegypt who being demand●…d by Ptolomens Lagus who was Socrates's Father The impertinent Pedant enquired of the King who was Lagus's Father which embosomed a tacit Reflection on the meanness of his Decent for which Insolencie the Courtiers advised to hang him But the mild Prince answered that he who will jest must resolve to be jested withall As for that Secre●…ary to Emmanuel K. of Portugal I think his Royal Master was very injurious to him for the King having receaved a Letter from the Pope concerning a weighty Affair He called for His Secretary and ordained him to frame an answer so well as He could against the next morning and I will said the King draw up an Answer too and what We both judge to be fittest shall be sent the Secretary obey'd but when the King read his Draught He threw His own into the Fire because it was so far exceeded by the other and me●…rly for this threw His Secretary out of his Place which without all peradventure was male judicatum for the King ought to have considered that His Secretary was bound to be faithful to his Prince as one of His Subjects and that it was no part of the Regal Office but only of a Clerk to be a good Formalist and if he had consulted the Prince of the Latin Poets he would have taught Him more Prudence in these excellent Verses Exeudent alij spirantia mollius Aera c. Tu regere Imperio Populos Romane memento Hae Tibi erunt Artes c. FAB LXXVI Page 75. This Fable minds Me of the Perverseness of the Tartars who being contiguous to diverse Parcels of good Land which also border either on Pol●… or Muscovy they like the Dog in the Manger will not suffer their Nighbours to cultivat that interjacent earth nor will they be at the pains to labour it themselves FAB LXXVIII LXXIX LXXX Page 77. Here he had Occasion to mention that blasphemous expression of Alphonsus the Xth of that Name K. of Castile He vvas accounted a great Astronomer at least it was by his Authority and on his expence that the ●…amous Tabulae ALPHONSINAE were framed and published to the World his parasitical Subjects gave him the Epithete of ALPHONSUS the WISE but Mariana was more just to Him in writing that He was more Knowing than Wise neither judge I it an Act of Injustice to aver that he was a most insolent FOOL in presumeing to say that if He had been at God's Elbow when He made the World He would forsooth have suggested a much wiser Contrivance But in his blasphemous Folly disastrous Fate We may see how dangerous it is to be handling edged Tools for after that most impious Expression He never prospered more in this World but became despicable both abroad and at Home for going to take Possession of the German-Empire to which diverse of the Electors had cal'd Him He found another placed upon the Throne before He came the length Yea like the Dog snatching at the Shaddow o●… Flesh in his Teeth in seeking a Crown abroad He left his own Diadem at home for his unnatural Son had taken possession of the Throne of Castile before his Father return'd to Spain tho he had gone no further than to Avinion in France FAB LXXXIV Page 81. Here He might have mentioned that witty reproof which Demoratus of Corinth gave

villanous Father-in-law Arrius Aper with that excellently learned prince Numerianus so that the mnrderer was most deservedly stabbed to death by Diocles●… for He was the Boar meant by one of the Dr●…des in France and that two or three Ages agoe Charles the warlick that restless Duke of Burgundy nourished su●…h a snake in his bosom when he entertained in his service that persidious Italian Count named 〈◊〉 Basso and who hath not heard that the Ma●…or Do●…o in France overturned his Masters house that the M●…rovingian Race might give place to the Carolovingian which within two or three Ages became a preparative to the Capaetian familie But who●…o desires variety of Instances to this purpose let them cross the Mediterranean S●… to Africa and there they will find many deleterious snakes fostered in their masters bosome to their utter ruine at last Neither need wee goe so f●…rr back to the bastard Iugurt●…a who ruined the two sons of his U●…kle and adoptive ●…ather Hiempsall the King of Numidia no●… to retrograd so f●…rr as to th●… Caliphs of Aegypt for the Kings of Fez and Moro●…co without speaking one word of the Mamalues of Aegypt who came after the Caliphs afford us abundant instances to this purpose even of these that have ruined their Foster Fathers with the whole Royall Family under the pretence of Religion I mean that damnable Superstition of Ma●…omet to which that of 〈◊〉 Poet Lucretius may both truly and pertinently be applyed Ta●…um Re●…gio potuit 〈◊〉 malorum FAB CXCVII Page 168. They who are destitute of Children I mean who had never any if they want the Comfort of them so do they the Cross and it s a most certain Truth that children are uncertain Comforts but certain Troubles it being verie rare to find a numerous Issue without some Viper either among the Males or Females who is ready to tear out the bowells of the parents Contentment and they who have many and find no more but one such have great reason to bless Heaven for it for the greatest of Saints recorded in H. Scripture were not priviledged from that Cross and some of them had their patience exerciz'd by more than one Viper whom they had fostered in their bosomes as is evident from the respective stories of Noah Abraham Isaac and Iacob old Eli the High-Priest Samuel the Prophet and David the King the generality of the last three being undutifull both to their Heavenly and Earthly GODS for Grace goes nor by Generation but by Re-Generation otherwise it may be supposed that so Gracious Kings Priests and Prophets would have entailed some drams of goodness upon their posterity And that domesticall Crosses are justly accounted amongst the most anguishing Afflictions of this World We may perceave from the Concern of one of the greatest that ever reigned in it and that was Augustus Caesar who enjoyed all the Comforts of this Life in great Aboundance yet He was so affected with the shameless Prostitution of his daughter Iulia and her no less l●…bidinous Brats that the great Emperour o●…en wished either he had never Marryed or never Begotten Children yea He would not ●…erm them his legitimat Issue but the Impostumes of his Body or ●…res Vomi●…as and tria Car●…inomata Marcus Aurelius was as morall a Prince as ever sa●…e upon the Roman Throne and having but one Son who was that Incommodio●…s naughty Commodus the Father declared on his death bed that He would have dyed a happy Man if he had not begotten such a Phaeton to the 〈◊〉 Empire Lewis the Godly the first of that name who was King of France and Emperour of German●…e had verie u●…godly Children who often rebelled against their Lord and Father so had Henry the Il. of England undoubtedly a gallant man tho' never honoured with the Epither of Pious for he dyed Cursing all his male Children and there was a visible Curse followed them even in this life which is the usuall fate of a stubborne and perverse progeny whether their parents Curse them or not for either they dye young as is insiuuated in the fifth Precept of the Decalogue or if they enjoy a longer life they live in great miserie and die at las●… of a loathsome disease FAB CC. Page 170. Some good men have sometimes found reason to bless God as cordially for their disappointments as for their enjoyments because he hears them in mercy when he seeme●… not to hear them as he heares the wicked in wrath when their desires are granted for there have been many in the world who have been necessitated to unwish a thing more fervently than they formerly desired it that Covetous King of Phrygia is a notable Emblem of this tho' it is but a Poeticall or Romantick Storie for i●… the foolish Wish of Midas had not been seasonably ●…etrived he would shortly have dyed of mere hunger for all his meat and drink became Gold and for all the talking of Aurum Potabile I take it to be a much better Cordiall in the Purse than in the Stomach But it s the fate of some unhappy creatures to r●…semble Se●…ele the mother of Bacc●… ●…ven to be consumed in the first instant of the fruition of their rash and inconsiderate desires FAB CCIII Page 174. The author tells us he hath seen a tame S●…ider but I beleeve he never saw nor any m●…n ●…or him a tame 〈◊〉 tho' the same is given as the Symbol of Impudence FAB CCV Page 176. This impertin●…nt Doctor minds me of the English Proverb When I am dead mak●… Me a Caddell But it 's a more rational Apology as many Doctors have Reason to complain that the Patient was not obedient enough nor the attenders so circumspect as they ought to have been in observing his orders which were neither excentrick Unnecessary nor Tyrannicall but throughly consonant to the most approved rules of Art and for this they have the authority of the great Hippocrates in the latter part of his first Aphonis●… Nequ●… enim Medicus ita se comparare debet ut faciat quod factu Opus est s●…d Aeger astantes quae foras incid●…nt But the most relevant of all these Excuses is the unseasonable Call of the Doctor for the best Physician under Heaven is but the Minister of Nature so that when the natural strength is quite gone all attempts to restore it are in vain without a miarculous power so that the Doctor who consul●…s his own reputation ought not in such a case to medle let the patient be never so wealthy unless it be to aleviat the great pain of the dying person and to preserve a man from a tomenting death is undoubtedly a verie good office and worthy of a great Honorarium Now let us suppose a Physitian to have sufficient ground to undertake the cure yet if He would not have it said that the patient dyed of the Doctor rather than of the Disease let him in all dangerous distempers trust his own eye●… above