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 with its own, an honest Mind‘Repines not at the Joys which others find;
‘Nor thinks it can, without affronting Heav'n,
‘Invade the Properties which that has giv'n.
‘Tho', where no previous Right do's Titles grant,
‘Nature leaves Things to the first Occupant:
‘Yet where, by Civil Pacts, the Right's assign'd,
‘They are no longer common, but confin'd.
‘When so enclos'd, to use them at our Will,
‘Is, as the Users differ, well, or ill:
‘In the Proprietors, 'tis Right, and Just;
‘But in Usurpers, Theft, or Breach of Trust.
‘An Honest Man, whose Conscience Justice sways,
‘Without Reserve, all her Commands obeys:
‘Will no Designs, but what he may, pursue,
‘And gives, or wou'd give ev'ry One his Due.
‘Were all Men such, how Happy shou'd we be!
‘From Rapine safe, from all Injustice free.
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