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 VIII. The Crab and Fox:
Or, Beside the Mark.
A gadding
Crab, that in the Sea was bred,
Rambl'd a-shore, and like a Farmer fed;
But, by a Fox unfortunately spy'd,
And made his Prey, own'd, she deserv'dly dy'd;
She justly bore the Fate she might prevent,
Had she not wander'd from her Element.
Rambl'd a-shore, and like a Farmer fed;
But, by a Fox unfortunately spy'd,
And made his Prey, own'd, she deserv'dly dy'd;
She justly bore the Fate she might prevent,
Had she not wander'd from her Element.
The MORAL.
‘Unsettl'd Fools, who their own Bus'ness quit,‘Atchieving things for which they are unfit,
‘The Punishment of sure Miscarriage bear,
‘For rash Attempts beyond their proper sphere.
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