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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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FABLE I. The Frogs and Jupiter:

II.

FABLE II. The Crow and Birds:

III.

FABLE III. The Ass and Horse:

IV.

FABLE IV. The Ass and Calf:

FABLE V. The Beau and his Cat:

VI.

FABLE VI. The Stag and Sheep:

VII.

FABLE VII. Mercury and the Statuary:

VIII.

FABLE VIII. The Wolf and Mastiff:

IX.

FABLE IX. The Mariners:

FABLE X. The Sluggard:

XI.

FABLE XI. The Clown and Snake:

XII.

FABLE XII. The Frogs:

XIII.

FABLE XIII. The Fisher:

XIV.

FABLE XIV. The Old-Man loth to Die:

XV.

FABLE XV. The Dog and Sheep:

XVI.

FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:

XVII.

FABLE XVII. The Blind Woman and Doctor:

XVIII.

FABLE XVIII. The Ants and Grass-hopper:

XIX.

FABLE XIX. The Priest and Apples:

XX.

FABLE XX. The Birds and Beasts:

XXI.

FABLE XXI. Mercury's Preparation:

XXII.

FABLE XXII. The Farmer and Landlord:

XXIII.

FABLE XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:

XXIV.

FABLE XXIV. The Fly and Ant:

XXV.

FABLE XXV. The Prodigal and Swallow:

XXVI.

FABLE XXVI. The Horse and Stag:

XXVII.

FABLE XXVII. The Trumpeter:

XXVIII.

FABLE XXVIII. The Beasts and Fishes:

XXIX.

FABLE XXIX. Jupiter:

XXX.

FABLE XXX. The Impostor-Priest:

XXXI.

FABLE XXXI. The Old Man, his Son, and Ass:

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FABLE XIX. The Geese and Cranes:

Or, Poverty and Security.

Some Geese and Cranes, by tempting Plenty led,
Chose a rich Field, and at Discretion fed;
'Till, by the noisie Cacklings which they made,
Their Haunt was to the injur'd Hind betray'd:
He soon attack'd them; but the Cranes were light,
And shun'd his Fury, by an easie Flight:
While, by their weight, the Geese retarded, stay,
And, with their Lives, for all the Trespass pay.

The MORAL.

‘The Rich, by Fortune too much pamper'd, owe
‘Their Ruin to the Bulk to which they grow:
‘While Wealth's bright Charms invite the Plund'rer's Rape,
‘Its gross Incumbrance hinders an Escape:
‘But Poor Men find, in Indigence, Relief,
‘Their Nothing, baulks the Tyrant and the Thief.