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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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FABLE I. The Frogs and Jupiter:

II.

FABLE II. The Crow and Birds:

III.

FABLE III. The Ass and Horse:

IV.

FABLE IV. The Ass and Calf:

FABLE V. The Beau and his Cat:

VI.

FABLE VI. The Stag and Sheep:

VII.

FABLE VII. Mercury and the Statuary:

VIII.

FABLE VIII. The Wolf and Mastiff:

IX.

FABLE IX. The Mariners:

FABLE X. The Sluggard:

XI.

FABLE XI. The Clown and Snake:

XII.

FABLE XII. The Frogs:

XIII.

FABLE XIII. The Fisher:

XIV.

FABLE XIV. The Old-Man loth to Die:

XV.

FABLE XV. The Dog and Sheep:

XVI.

FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:

XVII.

FABLE XVII. The Blind Woman and Doctor:

XVIII.

FABLE XVIII. The Ants and Grass-hopper:

XIX.

FABLE XIX. The Priest and Apples:

XX.

FABLE XX. The Birds and Beasts:

XXI.

FABLE XXI. Mercury's Preparation:

XXII.

FABLE XXII. The Farmer and Landlord:

XXIII.

FABLE XXIII. The One-Ey'd Deer:

XXIV.

FABLE XXIV. The Fly and Ant:

XXV.

FABLE XXV. The Prodigal and Swallow:

XXVI.

FABLE XXVI. The Horse and Stag:

XXVII.

FABLE XXVII. The Trumpeter:

XXVIII.

FABLE XXVIII. The Beasts and Fishes:

XXIX.

FABLE XXIX. Jupiter:

XXX.

FABLE XXX. The Impostor-Priest:

XXXI.

FABLE XXXI. The Old Man, his Son, and Ass:

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A dying Swan, that with her fleeting Breath,
In tuneful Accents, seem'd to welcome Death;
Was, by a Stork, that heard her Song, admir'd,
When in such joyful Transports she expir'd:
That she, who ne'er before unlock'd her Throat,
To please her self with any charming Note;
Shou'd at grim Death's Approach, which others fear,
So gay, so chearful, so serene appear.

The Swan reply'd, I well may raise my Voice,
And at the kind Relief of Fate rejoyce;
Since I for Food shall take no longer Care,
No longer dread the Fowler's Gun or Snare.