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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The MORAL.
‘Tyrannick Princes, who delight in Blood,‘For private Ends, destroy the Publick Good;
‘And sacrifice to their wild Insolence,
‘Their People's Lives, which are their chief Defence.
‘Then, weaken'd by their Arbitrary Sway,
‘To ev'ry Foe they are expos'd a Prey:
‘And their Dispeopl'd Kingdoms make it known,
‘Their Subjects Safety was no less their own.
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