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 LIX. The Fox and Carv'd Head:
Or, Fair and Foolish.
A
Fox, that search'd a Carver's Shop for Food,
Found a Man's Head cut to the Life, in Wood:
He turn'd, admir'd, and prais'd the Counterfeit,
But thought the Block had neither Sense nor Wit:
Fine thing, said he, thy Maker play'd his Part,
And in thy Sculpture has express'd much Art;
But still thou art a stupid Log, I see,
And senseless as the Tools that fashion'd thee:
How has the Artist lost his curious Pains,
Who, with thy Beauty, did not give thee Brains?
Found a Man's Head cut to the Life, in Wood:
He turn'd, admir'd, and prais'd the Counterfeit,
But thought the Block had neither Sense nor Wit:
Fine thing, said he, thy Maker play'd his Part,
And in thy Sculpture has express'd much Art;
But still thou art a stupid Log, I see,
And senseless as the Tools that fashion'd thee:
How has the Artist lost his curious Pains,
Who, with thy Beauty, did not give thee Brains?
The MORAL.
‘When Lovely Features want an Equal Mind,‘And Beauty is not with Discretion join'd;
‘The Body seems an undigested Mass,
‘The Head is Wooden, tho' well Turn'd the Face:
‘But a bright Soul, which meaner Cov'rings shroud,
‘Will gild its Out-side, as the Sun a Cloud.
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