Truth in Fiction Or, Morality in Masquerade. A Collection of Two hundred twenty five Select Fables of Aesop, and other Authors. Done into English Verse. By Edmund Arwaker |
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The MORAL.
‘Men, who their own Misfortunes only weigh,‘Think none so wretched, so oppress'd as they;
‘But when their Woes with others they compare,
‘With greater Patience their Afflictions bear;
‘And less, the Loads themselves sustain, regret,
‘Because their Neighbours under greater sweat.
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