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Moral and political fables

ancient and modern. Done into Measurd Prose intermixd with Ryme. By Dr. Walter Pope

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Fab. V. The Lamb and Wolf.

A Lamb, out of a Room three Stories high,
Raild at a Wolf, as he was passing by,
Calling him ravenous Beast, Murderer, Thief,
And all the opprobrious Names he could rake up.
The Wolf marchd gravely on as unconcernd;
Yet he was heard to say, as he withdrew,
It is the place rails at me, tis not you.

The Moral.

Poor Men, well backd, dare speak against the Rich.