BEWICK'S SELECT FABLES.

"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 or "SELECT FABLES," T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.