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.
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The MORAL.
‘Vainly to Heav'n Men in Distresses flie,‘Who, in their prosp'rous State, did Heav'n defie.
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‘In Health and Plenty, Heav'n alike regard.
‘Small Credit is to late Repentance due,
‘Which scarce our selves can know if false or true;
‘The True, consists in a Regen'rate State,
‘And on a Death-bed seems begun too late:
‘That Time's too short to bring us to the Test
‘How we wou'd Practise what we had Profess'd:
‘For tho', when Sick, we for past Follies mourn,
‘The Bent to Sin may with our Health return.
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