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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.

‘False Wretches, thus, who Friendship's Laws despise,
‘And basely violate its Sacred Ties;
‘Find, (tho' the injur'd Suff'rer's feeble Rage
‘Do's vainly for a just Redress engage)
‘That Righteous Heav'n, with its arm'd Justice strong,
‘Will take sharp Vengeance for the hated Wrong:

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‘While from one Mischief, they on worse are bent,
‘The Crimes they act, prove their own Punishment.