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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
Arwaker, Edmund
  
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
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FABLE I. The Frogs and Jupiter:
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FABLE II. The Crow and Birds:
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FABLE III. The Ass and Horse:
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FABLE IV. The Ass and Calf:
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FABLE V. The Beau and his Cat:
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FABLE VI. The Stag and Sheep:
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FABLE VII. Mercury and the Statuary:
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FABLE VIII. The Wolf and Mastiff:
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FABLE IX. The Mariners:
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FABLE X. The Sluggard:
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FABLE XI. The Clown and Snake:
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FABLE XII. The Frogs:
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FABLE XIII. The Fisher:
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FABLE XIV. The Old-Man loth to Die:
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FABLE XV. The Dog and Sheep:
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FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:
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FABLE XVII. The Blind Woman and Doctor:
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FABLE XVIII. The Ants and Grass-hopper:
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FABLE XIX. The Priest and Apples:
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FABLE XX. The Birds and Beasts:
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FABLE XXI. Mercury's Preparation:
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FABLE XXII. The Farmer and Landlord:
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FABLE XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:
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FABLE XXIV. The Fly and Ant:
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FABLE XXV. The Prodigal and Swallow:
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FABLE XXVI. The Horse and Stag:
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FABLE XXVII. The Trumpeter:
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FABLE XXVIII. The Beasts and Fishes:
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FABLE XXIX. Jupiter:
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FABLE XXX. The Impostor-Priest:
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FABLE XXXI. The Old Man, his Son, and Ass:

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A gen'rous Man, by Heav'n with Riches bless'd,
Observ'd his Friends still, with his Wealth, encreas'd;
Daily he treated them with sumptuous Feasts,
And often wanted Room, but never Guests:
At last, (to try what Spring their Friendship mov'd,
If most his Fortune, or himself, they lov'd;
If they, who were Partakers of his Fare,
Wou'd, with like Constancy, his Dangers share)
He did his usual Company invite
(Not, as before, to revel, but) to Fight:
Told them, He of Invasion was afraid,
And, to repel the Force, desir'd their Aid.
But they, whose Stomachs were not half so great
To fight his Battels, as devour his Meat,
Hung back, and feign'd Pretence to be Excus'd:
('Twas the first Invitation they refus'd)
So when he was to March against his Foe,
His Num'rous Friends were dwindled down to Two:
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Their steady Friendship highly he approv'd,
And them, as they deserv'd, Caress'd and Lov'd:
The rest, unworthy of his Meat and Wine,
He vow'd, for him, shou'd with Duke Humphrey Dine.
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