Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
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Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
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Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,
1698.
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Fables.
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"Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55424.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.
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FAB. XIV. The Dog and Shadow.
A Dog, with Flesh in's Mouth, crossing the Po▪Perceivd his Shadow in the Stream below,And byth' Refraction of the Rays deceiv'd,He th' Objects greater than they were believd;Greater the Dog, greater the piece of Flesh,Snatching at which he dropt his own, and said▪Good Gods, how bad a Bargain have I made,I have lost the Substance, grasping at the Shade;Have I not wisely manag'd this Affair,To quit a Bird in Hand for one in th' Air?
The MORAL.
Buy not Hope dear, leave not a Lark in Hand,For all the Bustards upon Sal'sbury Plains.
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