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.
‘The Harms which Men, by loath'd Compulsion, do,‘Are not their Act, nor shou'd we think them so:
‘And all who with unjust Reproach, and Cries,
‘Condemn involuntary Injuries,
‘Their Reason, less than Children whipt, command,
‘Who burn the Rod, but soon forgive the Hand.
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