. Fables. e mornings care ?Why with new arts corrc(it the year ?Why glows the peach with crimfon Iiuc ?And whv the plums inviting blue ?Were thcv to feall his tafte defignd,That vermin of voracious kind ^ H 2 Cruli 94 FABLES. Cruih then the flow, the pilfring purge thy garden from difgrace. What arrogance ! the Snail replydjHow Infolent is upflart pride !Hadft thou not thus, with infult vain,Provokd my patience to complain jI had conceald thy meaner tracd thee to the fcum of fcarce nine funs have wakd the hours,To fwell the fruit and paint the I thy hu

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. Fables. e mornings care ?Why with new arts corrc(it the year ?Why glows the peach with crimfon Iiuc ?And whv the plums inviting blue ?Were thcv to feall his tafte defignd,That vermin of voracious kind ^ H 2 Cruli 94 FABLES. Cruih then the flow, the pilfring purge thy garden from difgrace. What arrogance ! the Snail replydjHow Infolent is upflart pride !Hadft thou not thus, with infult vain,Provokd my patience to complain jI had conceald thy meaner tracd thee to the fcum of fcarce nine funs have wakd the hours,To fwell the fruit and paint the I thy humbler life bafe, in fordid guife arrayd;A hideous infedl, vile, unclean,You draggd a flow and noifome train,And from your fpider bowels drewFoul film, and fpun the dirty own my humble life, good friend;Snail was I born, and fnail fliall end. And FABLES. And wluits a Inittcrtiy ? At belt,i Icb but a catcrpillcr, drcll :And all thy race (a numrous feed)?^lull prove of catcrpillcT breed 95. n 3 TA li L r 96 FABLES, it*:«?t A iBaiSSuPtiSii

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