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 VI. The Boar and Ass:
Or, Generous Contempt.
A sluggish
Ass, sprung from ignoble Blood,
Had ridicul'd the Vice roy of the Wood.
At which the gen'rous Boar, with brave Disdain,
Gnash'd his sharp Tusks but scorn'd to rage in vain:
More nobly his Resentment was express'd,
While, with this Reprimand, he aw'd the Beast:
Thy Insolencies dire Revenge provoke;
But, Slave, thy Baseness do's divert the Stroke:
Go, and oblig'd to thy own Dulness, live,
Which 'tis more shame to punish, than forgive.
Had ridicul'd the Vice roy of the Wood.
At which the gen'rous Boar, with brave Disdain,
Gnash'd his sharp Tusks but scorn'd to rage in vain:
More nobly his Resentment was express'd,
While, with this Reprimand, he aw'd the Beast:
Thy Insolencies dire Revenge provoke;
But, Slave, thy Baseness do's divert the Stroke:
Go, and oblig'd to thy own Dulness, live,
Which 'tis more shame to punish, than forgive.
The MORAL.
‘When servile Tongues on Men of Worth reflect,‘Their best Resentment is, a slight Neglect.
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‘To a Revenge, that wou'd disgrace thee more.
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