Chapter 16 OTHER AND OCCASIONAL FABULISTS.

'With wisdom fraught,

Not such as books, but such as Nature taught.'

Waller.

Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was a rabid Jacobite, journalist, and pamphleteer, and during a long life spent in fierce political conflict, in which, at times, he bore a far from estimable part, found time to translate various classical works, amongst these bei