Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
FAB. LXI. The Swan and Goose.
IN the same Court, a white Goose, and a Swan
Were kept, one for the rareness of his Song,
The other to be eaten with a Friend.
A Friend arrives, orders were sent toth' Cook
To kill the Goose, but he, unwittingly,
Mistook one for the other, both being white,
And seizd the Swan, who, as Swans usd to do
In former times, sung his own Funeral Dirge,
And so was known, and so he savd his life.
The MORAL.
Many from Dangers Eloquence preserves.
