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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FABLE I. The Lion and Goat:
Or, Advice for Interest.
A hungry
Lion, that observ'd, with Grief,
A Goat, that brouz'd along a rocky Cliff;
Advis'd her, not to take such fruitless Pains,
Who might have better Pasture on the Plains.
The Goat reply'd; Your Counsel, Sir, is good,
But I prefer my Safety to my Food:
The Kindness you in this Advice have shown,
Is not to ease my Hunger, but your own.
A Goat, that brouz'd along a rocky Cliff;
Advis'd her, not to take such fruitless Pains,
Who might have better Pasture on the Plains.
The Goat reply'd; Your Counsel, Sir, is good,
But I prefer my Safety to my Food:
The Kindness you in this Advice have shown,
Is not to ease my Hunger, but your own.
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The MORAL.
‘False Friends, with plausible Advice, betray‘The easie Fool on whom they hope to prey:
‘While they his Int'rest speciously pretend,
‘Their own Advantage is the secret End.
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