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.
‘Wisely the Men, who their own Weakness know,‘Yield to the Vigour of a stronger Foe:
‘Submission calms and temperates the Rage
‘By which they fall, who dare its Force engage:
‘Resistance causes a more furious Shock;
‘As Waves dash most on an opposing Rock.
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