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 LVI. The Linnet and Boy:
Or, Every Man to his Mind.
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Linnet, cocker'd by too fond a Boy,
(Her Master's only Care, and only Joy)
With all his kind Indulgence not content,
Made an Escape, and to her Fellows went.
He call'd, and ask'd her why from him she fled,
By whom she was so highly lov'd, and fed?
She answer'd, I wou'd Liberty retrieve,
And at my own, not your Discretion, live.
(Her Master's only Care, and only Joy)
With all his kind Indulgence not content,
Made an Escape, and to her Fellows went.
He call'd, and ask'd her why from him she fled,
By whom she was so highly lov'd, and fed?
She answer'd, I wou'd Liberty retrieve,
And at my own, not your Discretion, live.
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The MORAL.
‘Men, to their Native Liberty enclin'd,‘Disrelish Joys to which they are confin'd:
‘But Freedom do's the meanest Life advance,
‘Its Trouble lessen, and its Bliss enhance:
‘And he, whose Will no Master can dispute,
‘While Kings are Slaves, is truly Absolute.
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