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"THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely any thing, we find. A"
"[1] The lion's consort died: Crowds, gather'd at his side, Must needs console the prince, And thus their loyalty evince"
"Among the beasts a feud arose. The lion, as the story goes, Once on a time laid down His sceptre and his crown; And in hi"
"[1] An Address To The Duke De La Rochefoucauld.[2] While watching man in all his phases, And seeing that, in many cases, He a"
"One day, as Jupiter seated on high looked down upon the world, he was incensed at the faults committed by mankind. "Let us," he said, "have some o"
"[1] This wolf another brings to mind, Who found dame Fortune more unkind, In that the greedy, pirate sinner, Was balk'd of li"