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 Horse-Buyer.
Knaves well Met.
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Bully, for a Horse in mighty Strait,
Resolv'd to purchase one at any Rate:
Away the Spark to Smithfield-Market packs,
Where soon the Jockies ask him what he lacks:
One brought a well-turn'd Nag, that pleas'd his Eyes,
And Twenty Guinea's was the Selling Price:
He found the Beast too dear by Half a Score,
Yet cast to get him, and to pay no more:
Without much Chaff'ring therefore he agreed
To give the Sum demanded for the Steed;
Then paid half Rhino, and the Seller press'd
To let him be his Debtor for the rest.
The Jocky, pleas'd his Jade so well was sold.
Consented, but soon Dunn'd him for the Gold.
Friend, said the Chapman, you are fully Paid,
If you consider well the Bargain made;
To be your Debtor, Sir, I did agree,
And so (to keep my Word) I mean to be.
Resolv'd to purchase one at any Rate:
Away the Spark to Smithfield-Market packs,
Where soon the Jockies ask him what he lacks:
One brought a well-turn'd Nag, that pleas'd his Eyes,
And Twenty Guinea's was the Selling Price:
He found the Beast too dear by Half a Score,
Yet cast to get him, and to pay no more:
Without much Chaff'ring therefore he agreed
To give the Sum demanded for the Steed;
Then paid half Rhino, and the Seller press'd
To let him be his Debtor for the rest.
The Jocky, pleas'd his Jade so well was sold.
Consented, but soon Dunn'd him for the Gold.
Friend, said the Chapman, you are fully Paid,
If you consider well the Bargain made;
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And so (to keep my Word) I mean to be.
The MORAL.
‘The sly Impostor thus himself defeats,‘And, while intent on Cheating, meets with Cheats:
‘For they who purchase Goods too dear, on Trust,
‘Design, or are constrain'd, to prove Unjust.
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