. Æsop's fables, embellished with one hundred and eleven emblematical devices . eir mean performances defeatand disappoint them, have, time out of mind,been lashed with the recital of this fable. How N J78 FABLE LXXIII, agreeably surprising is it lo see an unpromisingfavourite, whom the caprice of fortune has placedat the helm of state, serving the commonwealthwith justice and integrity, instead of smotheringand embezzling the public treasure to his ownprivate and wicked ends! and, on the contrary,how melancholy, how dreadful, or rather, howexasperating and provoking a sight is it to beholdone
. Æsop's fables, embellished with one hundred and eleven emblematical devices . eir mean performances defeatand disappoint them, have, time out of mind,been lashed with the recital of this fable. How N J78 FABLE LXXIII, agreeably surprising is it lo see an unpromisingfavourite, whom the caprice of fortune has placedat the helm of state, serving the commonwealthwith justice and integrity, instead of smotheringand embezzling the public treasure to his ownprivate and wicked ends! and, on the contrary,how melancholy, how dreadful, or rather, howexasperating and provoking a sight is it to beholdone, whose constant declarations for liberty andthe public good have raised peoples expectationsof him lo the highest pitch, as soon as he is gotinto power exerting his whole art and cunning toruin and enslave his country ! The sanguine hopesof all those that wished well to virtue, and flat-tered themselves with a reformation of everything that opposed the well-being of the com-munity, vanish away in smoke, and are lost in adark, gloomy, uncomfprlable prospect. FABLE LXXIV. 179. THE SATYR AND THE TRAVELLER. A SATYR, as he was ranging the forest in anexceeding cold snowy season, met with a Tra-veller, half-starved with the extremity of theweather. He took compassion on him, audkindly ifivited him home to a warm comfortablecave he had in the hollow of a rock. As soon asthey had entered and sat down, notwithstandingliiere was a good fire in the place, the chillyTraveller could not forbear blowing his fingersends. Upon the Satyrs asking him why he didso, he answered, that he did it to warm his honestsylvan having seen little of the world,admired a man who was master of so valuable aquality as that of blowing heat, and thereforewas resolved to entertain him in the best man-ner he could. He spread the table before him 180 FABLE LXXIV. with dried fruits of several sorts; and produceda remnant of cold cordial wine, which, as therigour of the season made very proper, he mulledwi
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