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 XV. The Hawks and Doves:
Or, When Thieves Fall out, Honest Men Thrive.
The
Hawks Fall'n out, in Civil War engage,
And on each other vent their deadly Rage:
While the less Birds, no more restrain'd by Fear,
Enjoy the Freedom of their Native Air:
'Till (griev'd to see their bloody Feuds encrease)
The mediating Doves procure a Peace.
The Hawks, thus reconcil'd, new Broils concert,
And on the weaker Flocks their Force divert;
But treat the Doves at the severest Rate,
Who own'd, their Folly did deserve the Fate.
And on each other vent their deadly Rage:
While the less Birds, no more restrain'd by Fear,
Enjoy the Freedom of their Native Air:
'Till (griev'd to see their bloody Feuds encrease)
The mediating Doves procure a Peace.
The Hawks, thus reconcil'd, new Broils concert,
And on the weaker Flocks their Force divert;
But treat the Doves at the severest Rate,
Who own'd, their Folly did deserve the Fate.
The MORAL.
‘Men, who litigious Neighbours reconcile,‘Oft', by such Measures, do themselves embroil:
‘For Knaves, who love in Brangles to engage,
‘On one or other will discharge their Rage:
‘And Honest Men can only then be free,
‘When Villains, that disturb them, disagree.
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