Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others. / In three parts. 1. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2. Fables with reflections in prose and verse. 3. Fables in verse.

“Is not the earth
With various living creatures, and the air
Replenished, and all those at thy command
To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not
Their language and their ways? They also know,
And reason not contemptibly: with these
Find pastime.”
— Paradise Lost , b. viii. l. 370.
The above appeared on the titles of both the 1776 and 1784 editions of “Select Fables,” T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne .