These carcaffes on either hand, Those bones that whiten all the land My former deeds and triumphs tell, Robbers invade their neighbour's right. Of wafted lands and flaughter'd hofts; The virtue worthy of a throne; Heav'n gives you power above the reft, Like Heav'n to fuccour the distrest. The cafe is plain, the Monarch faid For beasts of prey, a fervile train, For all my fawning rogues agree FABLE Hoetton inv. P Fourdrinier at. A FABLE II. The SPANIEL and the CAMELEON. Spaniel, bred with all the care That waits upon a fav'rite heir, Ne'er felt correction's rigid hand; Indulg'd to disobey command, In In pamper'd ease his hours were spent ; The wind was fouth, the morning fair, And rolls upon the fofteft ground; A fortune cannot fail thee there; Pre Preferment shall thy talents crown. Like you, a courtier born and bred, For Jove the heart alone regards, 4 How |