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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While an officious Crow, for private Ends,
With diligence a Herd of Wolves attends,
She asks to be Partaker of their Prey,
As she was their Companion all the Way;
Alledging, She did duly on them wait,
And bore her Part in all their turns of Fate.
With diligence a Herd of Wolves attends,
She asks to be Partaker of their Prey,
As she was their Companion all the Way;
Alledging, She did duly on them wait,
And bore her Part in all their turns of Fate.
The angry Wolves thus her Demands reprove;
It is our Booty, not our Selves you love:
You, if the Gods our Ruin had decreed,
As soon on us, as on our Prey, wou'd feed.
It is our Booty, not our Selves you love:
You, if the Gods our Ruin had decreed,
As soon on us, as on our Prey, wou'd feed.
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