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 XXXVIII. The Sheep and Crow:
Or, Easiness invites Insults.
On a Sheep's Back a Crow triumphant sate,
And fill'd the Plain with her obstrep'rous Prate.
The passive Sheep, without Resistance made,
Bore the Insult, and no Concern betray'd;
But told a Spaniel, that stood grinning by,
He wou'd be soundly drubb'd for such a Cry.
The Crow reply'd; But I know what I do,
And dare make bold with such tame Things as you.
And fill'd the Plain with her obstrep'rous Prate.
The passive Sheep, without Resistance made,
Bore the Insult, and no Concern betray'd;
But told a Spaniel, that stood grinning by,
He wou'd be soundly drubb'd for such a Cry.
The Crow reply'd; But I know what I do,
And dare make bold with such tame Things as you.
The MORAL.
‘Vexatious Knaves, the patient Man despise,‘And load him with repeated Injuries:
‘But to the Man whose Anger kindles soon,
‘And will not bear Affronts, they offer none.
‘The Passive, by their Easiness betray'd,
‘Are thought, and us'd, as Beasts for Burden made:
‘While mettl'd Souls, who dare Resentment shew,
‘Make bold Insulters their due Distance know.
‘So Fortune do's the yielding Wretch enslave,
‘But stands in awe, and truckles to the Brave.
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