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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
  

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FABLE XXII. The Curr and Ox:

Or, Dog in Manger.

A hard-wrought Ox, that scarce had time to eat,
Came to the Crib, to snatch a Chew of Meat:
But a cross Messen, that beneath it lay,
With envious snarling, drove him from the Hay.
To whom the Ox; A Rope your fortune be,
Who will not eat your self, nor suffer me!

The MORAL.

‘Ill Men repine at what the Good enjoy,
‘And wou'd the Bliss, deny'd themselves, destroy:
‘Worth they malign; and labour to impair
‘What their base Souls allow them not to share.
‘And may they still that Virtue see, with Pain,
‘Which, tho' they envy, they neglect to gain.