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 XIX. The Boor and his Plough:
Or, The Sham-Redress.
A simple
Boor, who, toiling at his Plough,
Had tir'd himself, and his weak Cattle too;
When he his Labour ended with the Day,
Unloos'd his Team, and sent the Beasts away:
Then on an Ass the Plough and Harness ty'd,
And, mounted over all, did homeward ride.
But when the Ass, with too much Weight oppress'd,
Began to fail, the Boor (to ease his Beast,
That he the better might her Sloth upbraid)
The Plough and Gears on his own Shoulders laid;
And, without more Concern, was jogging on,
As if the Weight, that sunk his Ass, was gone:
Then told the Beast, She well might keep her Road,
For he, to savour her, bore all the Load.
Had tir'd himself, and his weak Cattle too;
When he his Labour ended with the Day,
Unloos'd his Team, and sent the Beasts away:
Then on an Ass the Plough and Harness ty'd,
And, mounted over all, did homeward ride.
But when the Ass, with too much Weight oppress'd,
Began to fail, the Boor (to ease his Beast,
That he the better might her Sloth upbraid)
The Plough and Gears on his own Shoulders laid;
And, without more Concern, was jogging on,
As if the Weight, that sunk his Ass, was gone:
Then told the Beast, She well might keep her Road,
For he, to savour her, bore all the Load.
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The MORAL.
‘Most Men, affected with the Weight they bear,‘Of others Suff'rings have no Sense or Care;
‘But vainly think they give their Friends Relief,
‘By Means improper to remove their Grief:
‘Tho' such Sham-Helps can none but Idiots please,
‘To shift the Load, but not the Bearer ease.
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