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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FABLE XVI. The Fowler and Dove:
Or, Harm watch, Harm catch.
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Fowler, led Abroad, in hope of Game,
Espy'd a Dove, and at the Bird took Aim;
But in the Instant press'd a latent Snake,
And lost his Life, while he the Dove's wou'd take:
Thus was he justly fitted in his kind,
And met the Fate he for the Bird design'd.
Espy'd a Dove, and at the Bird took Aim;
But in the Instant press'd a latent Snake,
And lost his Life, while he the Dove's wou'd take:
Thus was he justly fitted in his kind,
And met the Fate he for the Bird design'd.
The MORAL.
‘Thus Villains, to insidious Mischiefs prone,‘Contriving others Ruin, meet their own:
‘And all the secret Treach'ry they design,
‘Is made abortive by a Countermine.
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