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He now beholds the children, and admires 



Their dress and customs so unlike their sires. 



What greater wonder would he now express ~J 



Did he but know what signal triumphs bless > 



Our arms, thro' all the world attended with success? J 



Tho' age has whiten'd o'er the scaly backs 

 Of the old carp which swim the royal lakes j 

 They, neither barren, nor inactive, grow, 

 But still in sport the waves around 'em throw :* 



Here 



* The Dialogue of Creatures moralised, being one of the scarcest works 

 of ta ly typography, another extract may amuse. " Dialogo xlvi. Of a 

 fyssh callyd a carpe, and a fissh called Tymallus. It happyd in a greate 

 solempne feste, fisshes of the floode walkyd togidre aftyr dynar in great tran- 

 quillyte and peace for to take ther recreacyon and solace ; but the carpe began 

 to trowble the feste, erec^nge hym self by pryde & saynge, I am worthy to 

 be lawdyd aboue all othir, for my flesshe is delicate and swete more then it 

 can be tolde of. I haue not be nourished nothir in dychesse, nor stondyngh 

 watyrs, nor pondes ; but I haue be brought vppe in the floode of the greate 

 garde. Wherfore I owe to be prynce and regent amongeall yowe. Ther i 

 a fissh callyd Tymallus, hauinge his name a flowre, for Timus is callyd a 

 flowre j and this Tymallus is a fissh of the see, as saith Isidore, Ethimologi- 

 arum, xii. and allthoughe that he be fauoureable in sight and delectable in 

 taste, yet moreouir the fyssh of hym smellyth swete lyke a flowre and geuith 

 a pleasaunte odour. And so this fyssh Tyraallus, heringe this saynge of the 

 carpe, had greate soorne of him and sterte forth & sayde : It is not as thou 

 Siiyste, for I shine more bright then thowe, and excede the in odowre and 

 relece. Who may be comparyd vnto me, for he that fyndith me hath a great 

 tresowre. If fhow haue thy dwellynge oonly in the watir of garde, I haue 

 snya abydynge in many large floodes. And so emeng them were great 

 stryuis and contencyons. Wherfore the feste was tournyd in to great trowble, 

 for some fauowryd the parte of the one and some of the othir, so that be 

 lyklyhocle there shuld haue growen greate myschefe emonge them : for euery 

 of them began to snak at othir, & wolde haue torne eche other on smale 

 pecys. Ther was monge all othir a fissh cal'yd Truta euyr mouyd to breke 

 stryfe j and soo thys trowte for asmoche as she was agid, and wele lernyd, 

 ghe spake and sayde: Bredryn, it is not good to stryue & fight forvayne 

 lawdatewris and praysers j for I pray se not my self though some personii 



thinks 



