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.
‘Thus, from one Evil, Fools to greater run,‘And, by their own Devices, are undone:
‘While they contrive to shun what do's not please,
‘The Remedy proves worse than the Disease:
‘Like botching Workmen, they much Skill pretend,
‘But spoil whate'er they undertake to mend.
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