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Aesop's fables (1687)

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. XCIII. The Fox and Grapes.

The Fox who longd for grapes, beholds wth paine
The tempting Clusters were too high to gaine,
Grieu'd in his heart he forc'd a careles smile,
And cryd, they'r sharpe, & hardly worth my toyle.

Morall

Young Debauchees to Beauty thus ingrate,
That vertue blast, they can not violate.
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