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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
  

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The MORAL.
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The MORAL.

‘Why shou'd frail Men, at Death's Approach, be shock'd,
‘By whose kind Hand their Prisons are unlock'd?
‘Since, free'd from Troubles which their Lives enslave,
‘They lie at Rest within the peaceful Grave?
‘Embolden'd by their Liberty so near,
‘They need no Tyrant's Frown, nor Fortune's fear.

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‘He, whose undaunted Mind can Death despise,
‘All other Foes, and their short Rage, defies.