The Poetical Entertainer Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward] |
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The Climber.
A Fable.
A swain, who had from time to time
Stood fair in Fortune's Books,
Made it his chief delight to climb
Aloft to rob the Rooks.
But growing foolish in his Age,
When too securely blest,
To please the Knaves, would needs engage
To take an Eagle's Nest.
He did accordingly ascend
A dang'rous Rock that grew
By the Sea-side, to gain the End
His Comrades had in view.
But as he did too close invade
The Eagle's lofty Throne,
The Royal Bird her Pinions spread,
And beat the Dotard down,
Who spralling lay much marr'd and maim'd,
Repenting what he'd done,
And, for his Pains, was mock'd and blam'd
By those that set him on.
Stood fair in Fortune's Books,
Made it his chief delight to climb
Aloft to rob the Rooks.
But growing foolish in his Age,
When too securely blest,
To please the Knaves, would needs engage
To take an Eagle's Nest.
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A dang'rous Rock that grew
By the Sea-side, to gain the End
His Comrades had in view.
But as he did too close invade
The Eagle's lofty Throne,
The Royal Bird her Pinions spread,
And beat the Dotard down,
Who spralling lay much marr'd and maim'd,
Repenting what he'd done,
And, for his Pains, was mock'd and blam'd
By those that set him on.
Moral.
Whoe'er at Government presumesTo climb, and gets a Fall,
Loses his Honour, and becomes
The ridicule of all.
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