'T was held both necessary and much to the purpose to make anexact Description of every Fountain in particular, to concomitate thePlates. And to manifest the faithfull Representation of each Fable wehave annexed a brief Description of the Fable it self, with another ofthe frame and order of the Fountain.At the Entrance you find two fair brass Statues, painted with pro-per Colours, the oneergresenting Aesop, the famous Mythologist ofPhrygia, the other Cupid; each mounted apon a Pedestal made of pie-ces of Rocks. Aesop holds in one hand a Roll of Paper, and withthe clue of other points at Cupid, who has a thred in his hand,to signify that that God who in such manner ingages in the troublesom Labyrinth of Love, has not that mysterious faculty of reducingthem out, unless he take Wijdom for his Companion, whose ways aremanifestly demonstrated by Aesop in his Fables.Afterwards you find the several Fontains in order being 39 innumber. Upon each Fountain is a Plate of Brass, laid ore with aBlack Ground, and thereupon a Tetrastich, or Verse of four Lines,made by Monsieur de Benserade: Showing first the Fable and af-terwards the Moral [which so near as the Rhyme and Idiom ofthe Tongue will give leave we have imitated in EnglishDie