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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
Arwaker, Edmund
  
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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FABLE I. The Frogs and Jupiter:
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FABLE II. The Crow and Birds:
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FABLE III. The Ass and Horse:
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FABLE IV. The Ass and Calf:
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FABLE V. The Beau and his Cat:
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FABLE VI. The Stag and Sheep:
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FABLE VII. Mercury and the Statuary:
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FABLE VIII. The Wolf and Mastiff:
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FABLE IX. The Mariners:
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FABLE X. The Sluggard:
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FABLE XI. The Clown and Snake:
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FABLE XII. The Frogs:
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FABLE XIII. The Fisher:
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FABLE XIV. The Old-Man loth to Die:
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FABLE XV. The Dog and Sheep:
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FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:
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FABLE XVII. The Blind Woman and Doctor:
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FABLE XVIII. The Ants and Grass-hopper:
  
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The MORAL.
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FABLE XIX. The Priest and Apples:
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FABLE XX. The Birds and Beasts:
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FABLE XXI. Mercury's Preparation:
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FABLE XXII. The Farmer and Landlord:
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FABLE XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:
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FABLE XXIV. The Fly and Ant:
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FABLE XXV. The Prodigal and Swallow:
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FABLE XXVI. The Horse and Stag:
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FABLE XXVII. The Trumpeter:
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FABLE XXVIII. The Beasts and Fishes:
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FABLE XXIX. Jupiter:
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FABLE XXX. The Impostor-Priest:
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FABLE XXXI. The Old Man, his Son, and Ass:

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The MORAL.

‘Kingdoms and Bodies, whose Societies.
‘Like Members, with each others sympathize:
‘The Parts contribute to support the Whole,
‘Congratulate its Wealth, its Wants condole.
‘He, who these mutual Offices denies,
‘Deprives himself (in Need) of just Supplies.
‘The Prince's Treas'ry, like the Stomach, shows
‘To which, tho' still the Peoples Tribute, flows;
‘'Tis thence (improv'd by good Digestion) sent
‘To ev'ry Member, for its Nourishment:
‘And they, who scruple to provide the Food,
‘Must want themselves the Circulating Blood.
‘So the kind Sun do's to the Earth retail
‘The Vapours, which his Beams from thence exhale:
‘When rarify'd, he showr's 'em back again,
‘In wholsom Dews, and fructifying Rain:
‘But shou'd the Earth those Subsidies with-hold,
‘No fatt'ning Moisture wou'd refresh the Mould.
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