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.
‘While pamper'd Gluttons wholsom Fruit despise,‘Amidst full Tables, and Varieties;
‘The Men with Hunger pin'd, and thrifty Souls,
‘No poinant Sauces crave, nor Golden Bowls:
‘On what suffices Nature, they can Feast,
‘And relish homely Fare, as meanly dress'd.
‘Necessity, whose Empire all must own,
‘Makes what it recommends, go sweetly down:
‘And in our selves we find the Proverb true,
‘Which lets us know what hungry Dogs will do.
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