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Aesop's fables (1687)

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. LXXXVIII. The Captive Trumpeter.

A Trumpiter implores for life, and said
His harmless sounds alass no victims made,
But you designd, cryd they, for greater ill
Who men each other do excite to kill.

Morall

Those that by secrett ways do ills contract
Will be as guilty found, as those that act.