item: #1 of 10
          id: A06144
      author: Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
       title: The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.
        date: 1607.0
       words: 29258
      flesch: 76
     summary: Torquin the proud , after he was put out of his kingdome , would say , that he neuer knew his friends while he was King in Rome . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: alexander; athenians; athens; babilon; bee; bring; britane; cap; cause; children; countrey; cum; diuels; doe; earth; egipt; egiptians; england; friends; god; gods; good; greece; hand; haue; heads; heauen; hee; himselfe; iewes; images; israel; iudah; king; kingdomes; lib; like; man; men; nec; non; ouer; papists; people; philip; plut; pope; priests; quam; qui; reg; religion; romanes; rome; saith; sayd; saying; seminaries; serpents; sonne; souldiers; sword; themselues; thou; time; tree; vnder; vnto; vpon; wee; wife
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: A08375
      author: Aesop.
       title: Esops eables [sic] translated grammatically, and also in propriety of our English phrase; and, euery way, in such sort as may bee most profitable for the grammar-schoole
        date: 1617.0
       words: 15642
      flesch: 91
     summary: That mischiefe also * is added vnto the heape of their vnhappinesse , that they shall bee contemned of th●se , whom * they haue contemned and those will mock them whom they themselues haue r laughed at . In which when she had r b●n well fed , * and afterward trying to goe forth againe , her belly beeing ouermuch stretched out hindered her .
    keywords: againe; bee; beeing; doe; english; euery; forth; fox; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; lion; man; men; mor; mouse; shee; themselues; things; thou; time; vnto; wee; wolfe
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: A11384
      author: Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
       title: The country mouse, and the city mouse. Or a merry morrall fable enlarged out of Horace. Serm. lib. 2. Sat. 6.
        date: 1637.0
       words: 5832
      flesch: 72
     summary: These Latine words I once by chance did eate , While I a booke did gnaw , since that I speake These words by rote , and as some doe , so I On all occasions bring forth and apply , Because I have no more ; but to the matter My friend and Country Mouse I would not flatter Your understanding , for beleeve me death Will one day stop the pipes of our weake breath , If we were nere so great , yet you and I Must yeeld to time , for men and Mice must dye . 6. Rusticus urbanum murem , mus paupere fertur , Accepisse cavo , veterem vetus hospes amicum ▪ In former time a Country Mouse That in a Cave did live :
    keywords: citty; citty mouse; country; country mouse; doe; doth; mice; mouse; store; tcp; text; time
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: A15692
      author: Woodhouse, Peter, poet.
       title: The flea sic parua componere magnis.
        date: 1605.0
       words: 8405
      flesch: 86
     summary: I Will neither call thee gentle nor vngentle reader , for I knowe not thy disposition● neither will I terme thee learned nor vnlearned , for I was not acquainted with thy education : Nor yet will I praise this Pamphlet ( as contayning pleasure or profit ) for if thou beest wise , thou canst perceiue it better then I ; if otherwise , it will be in vaine , for I shall neuer be able to make thee conceiue it . If thou doost reap any profit by it , the more is thy discretion● if none at all , the worsse is thy fortune .
    keywords: beast; cause; doe; doth; dreame; euen; flea; good; haue; knowe; man; men; owne; quoth; selfe; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: A26488
      author: Aesop.
       title: Æsops fables, with the fables of Phaedrus moralized, translated verbatim, according to the Latine, for the use of grammar schooles, and for children ... / published by H.P.
        date: 1646.0
       words: 10653
      flesch: 79
     summary: Wherefore didst thou make this water muddy for me a drinking ? the Lambe or Woollbearer being afraid , inferred thus , How could I pray you good Master Wolfe doe that which you complain of ? the water runneth down from you unto my draughts . THe Horse waged warre with the Hart , at length driven from his pastures , requested mans help : he returneth with the man , he cometh into the field , though overcommed before , now is made the conquerour : but notwithstanding his enemy being overcome , and captivated , the conquerour must of necessitie serve man ; for he beareth the rider on his backe ; and a bit in his mouth .
    keywords: asse; countrey; dogge; fab; fables; fox; frogs; hart; king; lion; man; mouse; saith; thou; time; wolfe
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: A26524
      author: Aesop.
       title: Mythologia ethica, or, Three centuries of Æsopian fables in English prose done from Æsop, Phædrus, Camerarius, and all other eminent authors on this subject : illustrated with moral, philosophical, and political precepts : also with aphorisms and proverbs in several languages, and adorned with many curious sculptures cut on copper plates / by Philip Ayres, Esq.
        date: 1689.0
       words: 74583
      flesch: 77
     summary: Then laughing at his own mistake and vain Suspition ; Well , Said he in his Heart , I could not have believed , that so great a Cry , could have come out of so small a Body . Now as certain Medicines are used , as well for keeping Men in Health , as for Curing the Sick ; so , to excite and preserve Vertue , as well as to cure the Diseases of the Mind , good and sound Precepts of Morality are requisite , which are always esteemed its properest Medicaments .
    keywords: aesop; alas; ape; art; ass; bear; beasts; birds; body; care; cat; cock; come; coming; country; creature; danger; day; dead; death; dog; dogs; eagle; enemies; enemy; est; fab; fable; father; fear; fox; friends; gods; good; great; ground; head; hearing; home; honour; house; iupiter; kind; king; know; leave; life; lion; lyon; man; manner; master; men; mind; mother; nature; non; people; persons; place; pleasure; qui; reason; sea; seeing; self; set; sheep; shepherd; son; strength; thee; things; thou; thought; time; tree; way; wolf; words; work; world; young
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: A45463
      author: Aesop.
       title: The fables of young Æsop, with their morals with a moral history of his life and death, illustrated with forty curious cuts applicable to each fable.
        date: 1700.0
       words: 14613
      flesch: 75
     summary: Besides , who knows , whilst thou ●●t Vindicating thy Friend , but thou ●ay'st receive a Wound thrô thy Body 〈◊〉 a Hector ? Let this be thy Rule in all thy Recreation , and thou wilt Discern him plain enough to Shun him .
    keywords: art; child; children; conscience; death; god; good; heaven; life; love; man; mind; nature; parents; self; soul; text; thee; thou; thy; time; wilt; world; young
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: A55424
      author: Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
       title: Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
        date: 1698.0
       words: 21897
      flesch: 86
     summary: The Pye and Peacock . OF Birds the general Assembly met , To elect a King , the chiefest Candidate The Peacock , popular for his great Estate , His beauteous shape , and glorious painted Train , Had gaind the greatest part upon his side , And certainly would have been chosen King , Had it been put to th' Vote , which when the Pye Perceivd , he stood up , and cravd leave to speak , Turning his Face to th' Peacock , Beauteous Sir , Said he , if th' Eagle should with us wage War , How would you lead us on ? and bring us off ? 'T is true thou' rt handsome , but thou hast no Wit.
    keywords: ape; ass; birds; country; cryd; day; dear; death; den; die; dog; een; fab; father; fear; flesh; fox; friend; gods; good; hand; head; hear; het; house; iove; king; life; lion; man; men; moral; mother; niet; place; replyd; self; sir; son; text; thou; time; way; wolf
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: A68703
      author: Scot, Tho. (Thomas), fl. 1605.
       title: Philomythie, or, Philomythologie wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely / by Tho: Scot ...
        date: 1622.0
       words: 52454
      flesch: 83
     summary: De●rac●ion●s ●s perplext , aud I enforce no man to beleeue this Narration ; the ●robability , with the credit of the Relator , and the ●uccesse , haue preuailed with me to accept and repor●●t .
    keywords: age; asse; ayre; b ●; beasts; bee; bird; blood; c ●; cause; church; court; day; de ●; death; doe; doth; eagle; earth; euery; eye; f ●; faith; fame; feare; fire; fit; friends; g ●; giue; god; good; h ●; hand; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; hee; himselfe; house; ill; iustice; king; l ●; law; li ●; life; light; like; liue; lo ●; looke; loue; m ●; man; master; men; minde; nature; neuer; ouer; owne; p ●; pl ●; place; quoth; r ●; rest; s ●; sea; soone; stand; state; strength; sunne; tell; th ●; thee; themselues; things; thinke; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; vnto; vpon; vse; w ●; way; wit; world; worth; ● ame; ● ct; ● d; ● e; ● ed; ● es; ● hat; ● lib; ● ll; ● n; ● nd; ● o; ● rs; ● sse; ● st; ● t; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: A75953
      author: Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.
       title: The Phrygian fabulist or, The fables of Æsop: extracted from the Latine copie, and moraliz'd. By Leonard Willan Gent.
        date: None
       words: 38634
      flesch: 79
     summary: Xanthus ( not knowing what els well to saie ) replied , this , as other things was in the Government of Divine Providence : at which Aesop laughing ; Xanthus incenst , ask't , if in it , hee had derided him ? Aesop replied ; not him , but who him taught : For what was by Divine Providence don , by wise men onely should bee scrutable : desiring that the resolution might bee left to him ; which granted , Aesop thus answered it ; A Woman having children by the first , became the Wife unto a second Husband , who children also by a former had : unto the children shee brought forth , the Wife a most indulgent Mother was ; but unto those of which shee found her Husband prepossest , a churlish stepdame , whose rights shee often them abridg'd , to cherish more her own : So the Earth , to those that were her proper Issue , as Legitimate , plentifully administred : But unto those that planted were by Art , as Bastards , scarce afforded Nourishment . Aesop said to the King ( with great Humilitie ) hee nor by force , nor by necessitie was compel'd to his Presence , but of his own Accord ; therefore desir'd his Pardon and Libertie to speak : which granted ; Aesop said ; A certain man , who Locust sought to slaie , by chance had took a Grashopper , whom hee about to kil ; the Grashopper desired him , not to destroie him without anie Caus : shee did the Ear no hurt , nor yet in other Action injure him ; the motion of her little tongue did but delight the Passenger .
    keywords: aesop; art; ass; beast; becom; bee; beeing; bring; cast; caus; crow; daie; dead; death; dog; doth; e're; eagle; earth; end; fear; finde; flie; fox; good; hand; hee; ill; jove; king; length; life; lion; man; manie; master; mee; men; mindes; moral; mous; nature; preie; present; repli'd; replie; return'd; sens; shee; slight; som; thee; themselvs; thou; thy; time; use; vain; wee; whereat; wolf; xanthus
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