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 II. Jupiter and the Tortoise:
Or, Home is Home.
Jove
treated all his Creatures at a Feast,
Only the Tortoise came not with the rest:
The angry God resented her Delay,
And sent to know the reason of her Stay.
She answer'd him, That in her homely Shell
She rather wish'd, than in his Court, to dwell.
Then on your Back, said he, where-e'er you go,
You still shall carry what you value so.
Only the Tortoise came not with the rest:
The angry God resented her Delay,
And sent to know the reason of her Stay.
She answer'd him, That in her homely Shell
She rather wish'd, than in his Court, to dwell.
Then on your Back, said he, where-e'er you go,
You still shall carry what you value so.
The MORAL.
‘The Wise, that are enclin'd to live at Ease,‘And Reason, more than Appetite, do please,
‘Relish the mean Repasts their Home affords,
‘More than the Dainties of luxuriant Boards:
‘Their Liberty does their coarse Fare digest,
‘And makes each homely Meal a sumptuous Feast.
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