The Fables of Phaedrus
Translated by Christopher Smart
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The opening
Prologue.
WHAT from the founder Esop fell, In neat familiar verse I tell: Twofold’s the genius of the page, To make you smile and make you sage. But if the critics we displease, By wrangling brutes and talking trees, Let them remember, ere they blame, We’re working neither sin nor shame; ’Tis but a play to form the youth By fiction, in the cause of truth.
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