Another Parafrase of the same.
Out of a Millers House a sudden Flood
Carried two Vessels, one of Potters Earth,
And one of heavy solid Metal made.
The Earthen Pot the other oversaild,
Dancing upon the Billows like a Cork;
But her Companion, who much Water drew,
An•• slowly movd, finding he strove in vain
Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
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- Title
- Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
- Author
- Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
- Publication
- 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 May 16, 2024.
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Page 7
T' oretake her, she was got so far before:
He cryd aloud, Sister, dear Sister stay
For your old Friend, hear what I have to say:
Lets make this perilous Voyage hand in hand,
And spend the time in Conference till we land.
Sir, said the Earthen Pot, it grieves me much
I cannot now comply with your desire;
For if we should by chance together knock,
What will become of me poor brittle Crock?
Who can secure me from your Iron Frock?