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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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FABLE V. The Mountain in Labour:

Or, A great Cry, and little Wool.

A pregnant Mountain long had heaving lain,
As if some monstrous Burden caus'd its Pain:
The neighb'ring People, in a deadly fright,
Flock'd round in Crouds to the prodigious Sight:
And while devoutly they Lucina call,
Out creeps a puny Mouse, and shams them all.
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The MORAL.

‘Believe not those who great Atchievements boast;
‘For they who most pretend, deceive us most.
‘When swelling Words have rais'd our Hope, or Fear,
‘The Passions greater than their Cause appear.
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