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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FABLE XVI. The Carter and Wheel.
Ease in Complaint.
As
Hob his Waggon drove along the Road,
A crazy Wheel, o'er-burden'd with its Load,
Made heavy Murmurs, and did loudly creak,
As if its Trouble wou'd have made it speak.
Whereat the wond'ring Carter ask'd his Wain,
What made that Wheel, more than the rest, complain.
To whom the Sage old Cart made this Return;
Because 'tis Ease to the Oppress'd, to Mourn.
A crazy Wheel, o'er-burden'd with its Load,
Made heavy Murmurs, and did loudly creak,
As if its Trouble wou'd have made it speak.
Whereat the wond'ring Carter ask'd his Wain,
What made that Wheel, more than the rest, complain.
To whom the Sage old Cart made this Return;
Because 'tis Ease to the Oppress'd, to Mourn.
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The MORAL.
‘The Wretch, o'er-burden'd with intestine Grief,‘In outward Marks of Sorrow finds Relief;
‘The Suff'rings he bewails, he gently bears,
‘And his Concern exhausts it self in Tears.
‘For Grief, like Anger, will be quickly spent,
‘When once the tumid Passion finds a Vent:
‘But stifled Woes, like Wounds that inward bleed,
‘Avoid the Cure of which they stand in need.
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