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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| LVII. | FABLE LVII. The Curate and Sick Man:
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FABLE LVII. The Curate and Sick Man:
Or, Godliness for Gain.
An Aged Man, and very Ignorant,
Labour'd at once with Sickness and with Want:
The Wretch, too much addicted to complain,
And fretting at his Poverty and Pain;
To Patience, by the Curate, was advis'd,
Because, whom Heav'n lov'd best, it most chastis'd.
Then 'tis not strange, said he, its Friends are few;
They daily must decrease, if that be true.
Labour'd at once with Sickness and with Want:
The Wretch, too much addicted to complain,
And fretting at his Poverty and Pain;
To Patience, by the Curate, was advis'd,
Because, whom Heav'n lov'd best, it most chastis'd.
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They daily must decrease, if that be true.
The MORAL.
‘Gainful Religion, Men the best conclude;‘Still Loaves and Fishes draw the Multitude:
‘And they whose Godliness is only Gain,
‘Will, as that fails, their forward Zeal refrain:
‘Rarely their Love to that high Pitch is brought,
‘To serve the Lord, like holy Job, for nought.
‘Few, while his Hand do's heavy on them lie,
‘Beneath their Stripes, keep their Integrity.
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