A Poetical Translation Of The Fables of Phaedrus With The Appendix of Gudius, And an accurate Edition of the Original on the opposite Page. To which is added, A Parsing Index For the Use of Learners. By Christopher Smart |
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FABLE XII. The He-Goats and She-Goats.
When the She-goats from Jove obtain'd
A beard, th'indignant males complain'd,
That females by this near approach
Would on their gravity encroach.
Suffer, my sapient friends, says he,
Their eminence in this degree,
And bear their beard's most graceful length,
As they can never have your strength.
A beard, th'indignant males complain'd,
That females by this near approach
Would on their gravity encroach.
Suffer, my sapient friends, says he,
Their eminence in this degree,
And bear their beard's most graceful length,
As they can never have your strength.
Warn'd by this little tale agree
With men in gen'ral form'd like thee,
While you by virtue still exceed,
And in the spirit take the lead.
With men in gen'ral form'd like thee,
While you by virtue still exceed,
And in the spirit take the lead.
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