Fables Ancient And Modern After the Manner of La Fontaine
Fables Ancient And Modern After the Manner of La Fontaine
William Wallbeck
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And not content with murdering, eat y And thought them moft delicious meat. Lit'rallyfo; not, as we fay, . French Slaves are fed 'on every day. 36 FABLES; ANCIENT AND MODERN: Louis, we know, cannot devour His Subjects, but by metaphor. No more an Anthropophagus Is He than NORTH, who draws from us Our deareft blood : our ca(h, I mean. His Imports make us wond'rous lean ; The richeft of us : but the Poor No longer can his gripe endure. Is 't fit they perifli, to fupport Him ; or THE GREATEST MAN ...at Court? But hold thy too licentious tongue, My Mufe : The KING can do no wrong, We muft not thence too much infer. ") Alack ! We know, His MINISTER, And PRIVY COUNSELLORS can err. J Elfe mould we not, as now we do, This hateful, hppelefs War purfue, But We miift not thence too much infer. '] In Abfolute Monarchies the language of fervile adulation fays, ' Indigna digna babenda funf, REX qua: facitC But our maxim, that ' THE KING can do no 'wrong means only, that whatever may be amifs in the conduct of public affairs is not chargeable pedbnally on the KING, but on his MINISTERS.
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