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.

by Aesop; Robert Dodsley

And love, and fear, and prudence fails:

When thus he spoke with cheerful air—

“From Turturella far be care,

No more let tears those eyes distain,

Whate’er I seek three days shall gain;

Returning then, to thee I’ll tell

Whate’er I saw, or me befell:

Amusing thus the pensive day,

Who little see, can little say,

Of rich description full, my tale