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.
‘A jealous Man, by false Surmise mis-led,‘Fears not the Enemies he ought to dread;
‘But, thro' his Misconstruction, apprehends
‘His Harms occasion'd by his only Friends:
‘Such wrong Suspicions make him prove unjust,
‘The Guilty free, the Innocent mistrust.
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