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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.

‘Since Providence do's best for Mortals chuse,
‘Covet no Good reserv'd; none giv'n, refuse.
‘Heav'n largely will our real Wants supply,
‘And not our Lust, but Reason, gratifie.
‘Why shou'd we Grief, at others Joys, express,
‘Who have enough wherein to acquiesce?