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.
‘Contented Men no Disappointment dread,‘Their Wishes ne'er Sufficiency exceed:
‘But they, whose vast Desires no limits know,
‘Miss what they seek; and what they have, forego.
‘Ixion-like, baulk'd of their Juno's Charms,
‘They find a Cloud in their deluded Arms.
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