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

Which Heav’n to give me, gave Content!

Learn hence the gifts of Jove to prize,

And, ere misfortunes teach, be wise.”

Fable XIV.
The Beau and Butterfly.

When summer deckt each sylvan scene,

And sunshine smil’d along the green,

When groves allur’d with noon-tide shade,

And purling brooks refresh’d the glade;