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.
‘Delay, tho' Dangerous in other Things,‘In Difficulties kind Assistance brings:
‘And, when Men cannot shun impending Fate,
‘They wisely shou'd the Stroke procrastinate.
‘Wretches Condemn'd, by gaining a Reprieve,
‘Find Means to get their Pardon pass'd, and live.
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