. Fables. c^ TABLE lo FABLES,. IWiroUcii iftl/. FABLE V, The Wi L D Boar and the Ram. A GAINST an elm a fhcep was tyd,*- -^ The butchers knife in blc-od was dyd jThe patient flock, in filent far beheld the horrid fights A F yi B L E S. 19 A lavage Boar, wlio near iIkiii AuoJ,Thus niockd to Horn the fleecy brood. All cowards Hiould be lervd like , Ice, yuur niurdrcr is in view ;With purple hands and reeking knife\\c llrips the (kin yet warm witli life:Your c|uarlerd Tires, your bleeding dams,The dying bleat of harmlefb lambsCall for rceii-^c. O flupid race !The heart th wants
. Fables. c^ TABLE lo FABLES,. IWiroUcii iftl/. FABLE V, The Wi L D Boar and the Ram. A GAINST an elm a fhcep was tyd,*- -^ The butchers knife in blc-od was dyd jThe patient flock, in filent far beheld the horrid fights A F yi B L E S. 19 A lavage Boar, wlio near iIkiii AuoJ,Thus niockd to Horn the fleecy brood. All cowards Hiould be lervd like , Ice, yuur niurdrcr is in view ;With purple hands and reeking knife\\c llrips the (kin yet warm witli life:Your c|uarlerd Tires, your bleeding dams,The dying bleat of harmlefb lambsCall for rceii-^c. O flupid race !The heart th wants revenge is bafg. I grant, an ancient Ram bcir r. tt:ror in our eves,Yet think v. n^t of foul (o tame,\\ hich no repeated wrongs inflame,Inkn*blc of evry ill,Becaufc we want thy tulks to , Thofc who violence purineGive to thcinfclves the vengeance due, For so FABLES, For In thefc maflacres they find The two chief plagues that wafte mankind, Our fkin fupplies the wrangling bar. It wakes their Humbring fons t
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