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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| XLIV. | FABLE XLIV. The Citizen and his Hounds:
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FABLE XLIV. The Citizen and his Hounds:
Or, None safe, where Merit suffers.
A
Citizen, who bought a Country Seat,
Was much delighted with the sweet Retreat;
Nor wou'd remove 'till Winter grew severe,
And, by a tedious Storm, confin'd him there.
The Man, who found his whole Provision spent,
And wanted Food for daily Nourishment;
First, with the slaughter'd Sheep his Need supply'd,
And, when they fail'd, the lab'ring Oxen dy'd.
His Dogs, that saw it, frighted at the Sight,
Provided for their Safety, by their Flight:
They fear'd their Master wou'd not spare his Hounds,
Who kill'd the useful Beasts that plough'd his Grounds.
Was much delighted with the sweet Retreat;
Nor wou'd remove 'till Winter grew severe,
And, by a tedious Storm, confin'd him there.
The Man, who found his whole Provision spent,
And wanted Food for daily Nourishment;
First, with the slaughter'd Sheep his Need supply'd,
And, when they fail'd, the lab'ring Oxen dy'd.
His Dogs, that saw it, frighted at the Sight,
Provided for their Safety, by their Flight:
They fear'd their Master wou'd not spare his Hounds,
Who kill'd the useful Beasts that plough'd his Grounds.
The MORAL.
‘When they, whose Merits claim a just Respect,‘Are treated with Injustice, or Neglect;
‘What Usage may the less-Deserving fear,
‘Whom no such gaining Qualities endear?
‘Well may they thence their own worse Fate conclude,
‘And shun the Reach of such Ingratitude.
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