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.
‘Men, who premeditated Sins commit,‘With false Excuses wou'd themselves acquit:
‘But conscious Heav'n, that knows the trifling Sham,
‘Without Repentance, will the Actors Damn.
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‘Endeavour'd to conceal their Nakedness:
‘Deluded Adam, of his Crime asham'd,
‘Accus'd the Woman; she the Serpent blam'd:
‘Tho' she, when once enveigl'd to consent,
‘Did his Attempts upon the Man prevent.
‘Nor did the vain Pretence their Guilt excuse,
‘They lost the Trust their Folly did abuse.
‘Prevaricating Sinners miss their Drift,
‘And double the Offence they mean to shift.
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