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.
‘When Men of Mean Extraction ape the Great,‘(Tempted by Riches to that vain Conceit)
‘They fondly over-act the Part they Play,
‘And Baseness, in affecting State, betray:
‘While all the truly Noble, free from Pride,
‘The aukward Mimicks, in their Height, deride:
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‘Out-run their Fortunes, and become a Jest.
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