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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| XLIII. | FABLE XLIII. The Fox, Hare, and Hounds:
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FABLE XLIII. The Fox, Hare, and Hounds:
Or, Praise ill design'd.
A wily
Fox, by eager Hounds pursu'd,
Who sought all Means their Fury to elude;
Observ'd a Hare close sitting in her Form,
And hop'd he might on her divert the Storm:
Then to the Dogs he makes her Covert known,
Applauds her Flesh, and vilifies his own;
Assures them, she is most delicious Meat,
And fit for Dogs of Quality to eat.
The Hounds to seize the nobler Game prepare,
Quit the glad Fox, and start the list'ning Hare;
But her light Heels from their Pursuit convey
The Doubling Puss, and baulk their Hopes of Prey.
Kayward, when free'd, her false Commender meets,
And with just Taunts the treach'rous Villain greets.
To whom the Fox; Since thus you Praise resent,
How wou'd you bluster at Disparagement?
Who sought all Means their Fury to elude;
Observ'd a Hare close sitting in her Form,
And hop'd he might on her divert the Storm:
Then to the Dogs he makes her Covert known,
Applauds her Flesh, and vilifies his own;
Assures them, she is most delicious Meat,
And fit for Dogs of Quality to eat.
The Hounds to seize the nobler Game prepare,
Quit the glad Fox, and start the list'ning Hare;
But her light Heels from their Pursuit convey
The Doubling Puss, and baulk their Hopes of Prey.
Kayward, when free'd, her false Commender meets,
And with just Taunts the treach'rous Villain greets.
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How wou'd you bluster at Disparagement?
The MORAL.
‘Insidious Knaves, who base Designs pursue,‘Commend the Virtue which they wou'd undo:
‘They raise your Character, to sink your Fate;
‘For Envy waits on Praise, on Envy Hate.
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