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 Beasts were summon'd, by Command from Jove,
To try whose Off-spring he wou'd most approve:
Among the various Kinds, the Comick Ape,
With horrid Visage, and ungainly Shape,
Produc'd her aukward Whelps to pass the Test;
And thought the God, like her, wou'd judge them best.
Tickl'd at so ridiculous a Sight,
The Beasts forgot Respect, and Laugh'd outright.
To try whose Off-spring he wou'd most approve:
Among the various Kinds, the Comick Ape,
With horrid Visage, and ungainly Shape,
Produc'd her aukward Whelps to pass the Test;
And thought the God, like her, wou'd judge them best.
Tickl'd at so ridiculous a Sight,
The Beasts forgot Respect, and Laugh'd outright.
Laugh on, said she; Let Jove think what he will,
Mother's own Pictures are the fairest still,
This put them all upon the second Strain;
Nor cou'd ev'n Jove his Gravity retain.
Mother's own Pictures are the fairest still,
This put them all upon the second Strain;
Nor cou'd ev'n Jove his Gravity retain.
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