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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.

‘Children, observe your Parents sound Advice,
‘Your Safety in your just Obedience lies:
‘They know the Ills to which you open lie,
‘And, to prevent them, all their Care apply:
‘But if their wise Commands you disobey,
‘You make them wretched, and your selves a Prey.