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 VIII. The Mouse and Frog:
Or, The Miseries of Civil War.
While the small Empire of a Pool they sought,
A Mouse and Frog a bloody Combat fought:
A brandish'd Bull-rush was each Champion's Spear;
Each, for his Target, did a Mushroom bear.
The Fight grew desp'rate, and 'twas hard to find
To which Side Victory seem'd most enclin'd.
The weaker Mouse, from secret Ambuscade,
Did her strong Foe, by Stratagem, invade.
The Frog, whose greater Strength Advantage gain'd,
By open Force the doubtful War maintain'd:
'Till, from aloft the Clouds, a touring Kite
Beheld the Fray, and triumph'd at the Sight:
Then, with a sudden Swoop, (while each, enrag'd,
Regardless of himself, his Foe engag'd)
She seiz'd, and made them both at once her Prey;
And did her Thirst for Blood, and theirs, allay.
A Mouse and Frog a bloody Combat fought:
A brandish'd Bull-rush was each Champion's Spear;
Each, for his Target, did a Mushroom bear.
The Fight grew desp'rate, and 'twas hard to find
To which Side Victory seem'd most enclin'd.
The weaker Mouse, from secret Ambuscade,
Did her strong Foe, by Stratagem, invade.
The Frog, whose greater Strength Advantage gain'd,
By open Force the doubtful War maintain'd:
'Till, from aloft the Clouds, a touring Kite
Beheld the Fray, and triumph'd at the Sight:
Then, with a sudden Swoop, (while each, enrag'd,
Regardless of himself, his Foe engag'd)
She seiz'd, and made them both at once her Prey;
And did her Thirst for Blood, and theirs, allay.
The MORAL.
‘A Fate, like this, contending Factions have,‘Who, seeking Empire, do themselves enslave:
‘While they their Forces, as their Minds, divide,
‘Their Strength is but by halves on either Side;
‘And they, enfeebled by Intestine Broils,
‘Tempt Foreign Powr's to seize their easie Spoils.
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‘Left Rome Oppress'd, and Cæsar Absolute.
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