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Aesop's fables (1687)

Philipot, Thomas

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FAB. XCV. The Young Man and Swallow.

The spend thrift seeing the swallow yet to fly,
Sells all his cloaths, and dreames not winters nigh,
Deceivd, the killing frost he does behold,
And with the flattering bird even dyes with cold.

Morall

Each little hope cajoles the prodigall,
And fancying miracles he looses all.
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