The spurious epistles of Phalaris, and the fables ascribed to Æsop, had been selected for admiration by Temple, and were the subject of a large part of Bentley's Dissertation. It is curious that Swift commits himself so fully on the genuineness of the Epistles, which was not maintained by Boyle. As Boyle had edited Phalaris, so Anthony Alsop, of Christ Church, in 1698, edited the Fables of Æsop.