The fables of young Æsop, with their morals with a moral history of his life and death, illustrated with forty curious cuts applicable to each fable.
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- The fables of young Æsop, with their morals with a moral history of his life and death, illustrated with forty curious cuts applicable to each fable.
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"The fables of young Æsop, with their morals with a moral history of his life and death, illustrated with forty curious cuts applicable to each fable." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A45463.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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The MORAL.
TIS common with School-Boys to Spue out Repentance upon one anothers Backs, when they are under their Ma∣ster's Correction; and as frequent to wipe it off with their Tears: For, how many irreiterated Promises will they make to save a little Smart? But when it's over, they forget 'em, and run to their unlawful Exercise with as much Celerity and Egregiousness, as before. Indeed, some Cry up Correction as the Chief, to be used in Governing Youth; but, for my Part, I abhor it (especially the Excess) and esteem it as Bestiality, and fit for none but Irrational Creatures, Slaves and Criminals: But rather, on the other Hand, that they should be manag'd with all the Freeness and Ge∣nerosity imaginable. Wilt thou then, my Child, turn Beast, to Eat and Drink thine own Dung and Nastiness? GOD forbid: Consider, it is better to Disgorge thy self of that Venom of Pleasure, which infects thy Conscience, and henceforward, loath the most dain∣tiest Dish in the World.