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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.

‘Dissembling Villains wou'd, by Art, prevail
‘To gain their Ends, when open Measures fail:
‘But Wise Men (apprehensive of the Cheat)
‘Taught by Suspicion, their Designs defeat.