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.
‘The avaricious Wretch, who Wealth admires,‘And grasps the Globe, in his immense Desires;
‘Tempted by Love of Gain, becomes unjust,
‘Do's Men defraud, and Providence distrust.
‘But Envy, grieving at its Neighbour's Joy,
‘Lessens its own, that it may theirs destroy.
‘So the Old Serpent, grated at the Bliss
‘Our happy Parents found in Paradise,
‘To drive them from that Station to a worse,
‘Became a Sharer in the Fatal Curse.
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