NAMES OF THE MICE. NAMES OF THE FROGS. PSYCARPAX, One who PHYSIGNATHUS, One plunders granaries. Troxartas, A bread eater. Lychomile, Alicker of meal. Pternotroctas, A bacon-eater. Lychopinax, A licker of dishes. Embasichytros, A creeper in to pots. Lychenor, A name for licking. Troglodytes, One who runs into boles. Artophagus, Who feeds on bread. Tyroglyphus, Acheefe fcooper. Pternoglyphus, Abacon fcooper. Pternophagus, A bacon-eater. Cniffodioctes, One who follows the fteam of kitchens. Sitophagus, An eater of wheat. Meridarpax, One who plunders his fhare. who fwells his checks. Pelus, A name from mud. Hydromedufe, A ruler in the waters. Hypfiboas, A loud bawler. Seutlaeus, Call'd from the beets. Crambophagus, Cabbage-eater. Lymnifius, Call'd from the lake. Calaminthius, From the herb. Hydrocharis, Who loves the water. Borborocates, Who lies in the mud. Praffophagus, An eater of garlick. Pelufius, From mud. Pelobates, Who walks in the dirt. Praffaeus, Call'd from garlick. Craugafides, From croaking. OF THE FROGS AND MICE. BOOK I. O fill my rifing fong with facred fire, Ye tuneful Nine, ye sweet celestial quire! From Helicon's imbow'ring height repair, Attend my labours, and reward my pray❜r. The dreadful toils of raging Mars I write, The fprings of contest, and the fields of fight; How threat'ning Mice advanc'd with warlike grace, And wag'd dire combats with the croaking race. Not louder tumults fhook Olympus' tow'rs, When earth-born giants dar'd immortal pow'rs. Thofe equal acts in equal glory claim, And thus the Mufe records the tale of fame. Once on a time, fatigu'd and out of breath, And just escap'd the stretching claws of death, A gentle Mouse, whom Cats purfu'd in vain, Fled fwift-of-foot across the neighb'ring plain, Hung o'er a brink, his eager thirst to cool, And dipt his whiskers in the standing pool; When near a courteous Frog advanc'd his head; What art thou, stranger? what the line you Where by the nuptial bank that paints his fide, The swift Eridanus delights to glide. Thee too, thy form, thy strength, and port proclaim A fcepter'd king; a fon of martial fame ; Then trace thy line, and aid my gueffing eyes. Thus ceas'd the Frog, and thus the Mouse replies. Known to the Gods, the men, the birds that fly Thro' wild expanfes of the midway sky, My name refounds; and if unknown to thee, The foul of great Pfycarpax lives in me, Of brave Troxartas' line, whofe fleeky down In love comprefs'd Lychomile the brown. My mother fhe, and princefs of the plains Where-e'er her father Pternotroctas reigns: Born where a cabin lifts its airy fhed, Mix'd with the bravest, and unknown to flight. And fix indented wounds with dextrous fkill; Where Death his ambush plants around the bait: |