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 XXII. The Snail and Jupiter:
Or, Live within your self.
Jove
, willing to supply each Creature's Want,
To ev'ry one some pleasing Boon wou'd grant:
As soon as any made his Grievance known,
Whatever he requested, was his own.
The Snail petition'd, That where-e'er she went,
She on her Back might bear her Tenement.
The God demanded, Why she chose a Load,
That wou'd her tardy Motion incommode?
She answer'd, Sir, That Trouble I desire;
That, when I please, I may from worse retire.
To ev'ry one some pleasing Boon wou'd grant:
As soon as any made his Grievance known,
Whatever he requested, was his own.
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She on her Back might bear her Tenement.
The God demanded, Why she chose a Load,
That wou'd her tardy Motion incommode?
She answer'd, Sir, That Trouble I desire;
That, when I please, I may from worse retire.
The MORAL.
‘The Wise with any Circumstance dispense,‘That frees them from the World's Impertinence;
‘And when its Bustles and its Cares encrease,
‘Retire within themselves, and live in Peace.
‘This Latent Life secures their Solid Joy,
‘Which nothing from without them can annoy.
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