NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
[1.] F. B. Kaye, ed., The Fable of the Bees (Oxford, 1924), I, xxx.
[2.] The Preface to Miscellanies in Verse and Prose is reprinted in Edward Niles Hooker's edition of The Critical Works of John Dennis, I (Baltimore, 1939), 6-10.
[3.] Richmond P. Bond, English Burlesque Poetry, 1700-1750 (Cambridge, Mass., 1932), p. 147.
[4.] Bond, pp. 3-5.
[5.] Bond, p. 153, cites several narrative poems of this sort.
[6.] From these fables in the 1693 Miscellanies: "The Wolf and the Horse," pp. 72-83 (the first two excerpts); "The Lyon and the Ass a Hunting," pp. 92-95; "The Wolf and the Crane," pp. 101-105.
[7.] English Burlesque Poetry, pp. 149-152.
[8.] These instances occur, respectively, in "The Wolf and Dog," "The Hands, Feet, and Belly," "Council Held by the Rats," "The Lyon in Love," and "The Weasel and the Rat."
[9.] Aesop Dress'd, p. 73; La Fontaine, "Le Loup et le Renard," XI. vi; Dennis, Miscellanies, p. 117.
[10.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 64-65; La Fontaine, I. x.
[11.] La Fontaine, II, vii; "The two Bitches," Aesop Dress'd, p. 37.
[12.] La Fontaine, I. i; "The Grasshopper and Ant," Aesop Dress'd, pp. 17-18.
[13.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 48-50; La Fontaine, "Le Lion et le Moucheron," II. ix.
[14.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 71-73; La Fontaine, "L'Âne et le Chien," VIII. xvii.
[15.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 14-15; La Fontaine, VII. i.
[16.] "The Drunkard and his Wife," Aesop Dress'd, pp. 24-25; La Fontaine, III. vii.
[17.] La Fontaine, VI. xiv; "The Sick Lyon and the Fox," Aesop Dress'd, pp. 38-39.
[18.] La Fontaine, "Le Loup et le Chien," I. v; "The Wolf and Dog," Aesop Dress'd, pp. 2-4.
[19.] The poems appear on the following pages of Aesop Dress'd: "The Milk Woman," pp. 18-19; "The Frogs asking for a King," pp. 62-64; "The Wolves and the Sheep," pp. 45-46; "Hands, Feet, and Belly," pp. 7-10; "The Lyon grown Old," pp. 65-66. For the corresponding fables in La Fontaine see the notes to the text of the present edition.
[20.] See Kaye, II, 371, s. v. "Pride."
[21.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 4-5; La Fontaine, "La Grenouille qui se veut aussi grosse que le Boeuf," I. iii.
[22.] Aesop Dress'd, pp. 25-27.
[23.] Ibid., pp. 27-33.