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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
Arwaker, Edmund
  
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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FABLE I. The Frogs and Jupiter:
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FABLE II. The Crow and Birds:
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FABLE III. The Ass and Horse:
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FABLE IV. The Ass and Calf:
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FABLE V. The Beau and his Cat:
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FABLE VI. The Stag and Sheep:
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FABLE VII. Mercury and the Statuary:
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FABLE VIII. The Wolf and Mastiff:
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FABLE IX. The Mariners:
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FABLE X. The Sluggard:
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FABLE XI. The Clown and Snake:
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FABLE XII. The Frogs:
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FABLE XIII. The Fisher:
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FABLE XIV. The Old-Man loth to Die:
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FABLE XV. The Dog and Sheep:
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FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:
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FABLE XVII. The Blind Woman and Doctor:
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FABLE XVIII. The Ants and Grass-hopper:
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FABLE XIX. The Priest and Apples:
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FABLE XX. The Birds and Beasts:
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FABLE XXI. Mercury's Preparation:
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FABLE XXII. The Farmer and Landlord:
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FABLE XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:
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FABLE XXIV. The Fly and Ant:
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FABLE XXV. The Prodigal and Swallow:
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FABLE XXVI. The Horse and Stag:
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FABLE XXVII. The Trumpeter:
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FABLE XXVIII. The Beasts and Fishes:
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FABLE XXIX. Jupiter:
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FABLE XXX. The Impostor-Priest:
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FABLE XXXI. The Old Man, his Son, and Ass:

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The MORAL.

‘Distempers oft'nest on the Wealthy seize,
‘First bred by Softness, then encreas'd by Ease:
‘Where Action least is us'd, they most abound,
‘Like Thistles in uncultivated Ground.
‘But, as the frequent Tillage of a Soil
‘Do's banish Weeds, and all rank Products spoil;
‘So he, whose Fortune craves laborious Pains,
‘Prevents Diseases, and long Health maintains.
‘Nor are high Titles, or abundant Wealth,
‘To Liberty more friendly than to Health:
‘The Great, restrain'd from Life's more easie Rate,
‘Are Ceremonious Slaves, confin'd to State;
‘While Happy Men, in meaner Stations bless'd,
‘Live by no Rules but what are truly best:
‘Govern'd by Nature's Law, and Reason's Sway,
‘(Which 'tis the noblest Freedom to obey)
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‘The vain Impertinencies they avoid,
‘With which all Pomp is clogg'd, and Grandeur cloy'd.
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