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 VI. The Bald Knight.
Preventive Raillery.
Long since, e're Vice was Epidemick grown,
And Chaste Mankind grew Bald with Age alone;
When Wigs were us'd, not for the modern End,
To hide Mens Failings, but their Heads defend:
A Knight, whose Crown devouring Time, and Care,
Had spoil'd of all its ornamental Hair;
With borrow'd Locks the pressing Want supply'd,
And gain'd, from Art, what Nature had deny'd.
And Chaste Mankind grew Bald with Age alone;
When Wigs were us'd, not for the modern End,
To hide Mens Failings, but their Heads defend:
A Knight, whose Crown devouring Time, and Care,
Had spoil'd of all its ornamental Hair;
With borrow'd Locks the pressing Want supply'd,
And gain'd, from Art, what Nature had deny'd.
But as he walk'd the Street, a ruffling Wind,
Rude to his Person, to his Age unkind;
The loose False-Head into the Gutter blew,
And left his naked Pate expos'd to View.
Rude to his Person, to his Age unkind;
The loose False-Head into the Gutter blew,
And left his naked Pate expos'd to View.
The Knight, too Wise to be disturb'd, express'd
But light Concern, and pass'd it with a Jest:
Well may another's Hair, said he, be gone,
Since I cou'd find no means to keep my own.
But light Concern, and pass'd it with a Jest:
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Since I cou'd find no means to keep my own.
The MORAL.
‘Wise-Men, expos'd by any Accident,‘The Publick Censure, by their Own, prevent:
‘For Malice, that in others Grief is pleas'd,
‘Is tickl'd most, when most they seem diseas'd:
‘But he that at his own Disasters smiles,
‘Forestalls the Market, and the Mob beguiles.
‘So a Gall'd-Horse, that kicks and flings about,
‘Makes special Pastime for the fleering Rout;
‘But when he stands, and quietly is dress'd,
‘Sends the Fools blank away, and bilks the Jest.
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