Pelus A Name from Mud. Hypfiboas, A loud Bawler. Seutlæus, Call'd from the Beets. Praffophagus, An eater of Garlick. Pelobates, Who walks in the Dirt. Praffæus, Call'd from Garlick. Craugafides, From Croaking. HOME R's BATTEL of the FROGS, &c. BOOK Í. O fill my rifing Song with facred Fire, Ye tuneful Nine, ye fweet Celestial Quire! From Helicon's imbow'ring Height repair, Attend my Labours, and reward my Pray't. The dreadful Toils of raging Mars I write, The Springs of Conteft, and the Fields of Fight How threat'ning Mice advanc'd withwarlikeGrace, And wag'd dire Combats with the croaking Race. Not louder Tumults shook Olympus' Tow'rs, When Earth-born Giants dar'd Immortal Powrs. Thefe equal Acts an equal Glory claim, And thus the Mufe records the Tale of Fame. Once on a Time, farigu'd and our of Breath, And juft efcap'd the ftretching Claws of Death, A Gentle Moufe, whom Cats purfu'd in vain, Fled fwift-of-foot across the neighb'ring Plain, Hung o'er a Brink, his eager Thirt to cool. And dipt his Whiskers in the standing Pool ;When near a courteous Frog advanc'd his Head; And from the Waters, hoarse-refounding faid, What |