FAB. XXIII.

A _Mountain_ in _Labour_.

When _Mountains_ cry out, people may well be Excus’d the Apprehension

of some Prodigious Birth. This was the Case here in the Fable. The

Neighbourhood were All at their Wits end, to consider what would be the

Issue of That Labour, and instead of the Dreadful Monster that they

Expected, Out comes at last a Ridiculous _Mouse_.

The MORAL.

_Much ado about Nothing._

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