Moores Fables for the Female Sex: Embellished with Engravings

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by Edward Caldwell Moore 

FABLE I.

THE EAGLE AND THE ASSEMBLY OF BIRDS.
To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

The moral lay, to beauty due,
I write, FAIR EXCELLENCE, to you;
Well pleas’d to hope my vacant hours
Have been employ’d to sweeten your’s.
Truth under fiction I impart,
To weed out folly from the heart,
And shew the paths that lead astray
The wand’ring nymph from wisdom’s way.

I flatter none. The great and good
Are by their actions understood;
Your monument if actions raise,
Shall I deface by idle praise?
I echo not the voice of Fame;
That dwells delighted on your name:
Her friendly tale, however true,
Were flatt’ry, if I told it you. 

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