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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A
Daw, in Peacock's pilfer'd Plumes array'd,
Thought she a more than common Figure made:
She proudly did her fellow-Daws contemn,
And to the Peacocks fled, and flock'd with them:
But there out-acted what she seem'd to be;
None strutted so, or look'd so big as she.
Thought she a more than common Figure made:
She proudly did her fellow-Daws contemn,
And to the Peacocks fled, and flock'd with them:
But there out-acted what she seem'd to be;
None strutted so, or look'd so big as she.
The wiser Birds, who knew excessive Pride
Did not true Worth express, but Meanness hide,
Found the Impostor out, and with disdain,
Unrigg'd, and sent her to her Mates again.
Did not true Worth express, but Meanness hide,
Found the Impostor out, and with disdain,
Unrigg'd, and sent her to her Mates again.
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