Moores Fables
for
The Female Sex
Embellished with Engravings
 
 
Ye wretches, hence the Eagle cries,
 
Printed for Scatchard & Letterman, Ave Maria Lane;
Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme,
and H.D. Symonds, Paternoster Row.
1806.
 
(Printed by C. Whittingham)
 
 
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FABLES
FOR
THE FEMALE SEX.
 
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,
[Pg 2]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.

The proud, the envious, and the vain,
The jilt, the prude, demand my strain;
To these, detesting praise, I write,
And vent in charity my spite:
With friendly hand I hold the glass
To all, promiscuous, as they pass:
Should folly there her likeness view,
I fret not that the mirror’s true;
If the fantastic form offend,
I made it not, but would amend.
 
With friendly hand I hold the glass
To all promiscuous, as they pass;
Page 2.
London: Published May 1st 1799 by T. Heptinstall. No. 304 High Holborn.
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Virtue, in ev’ry clime and age,
Spurns at the folly-soothing page;
While satire, that offends the ear
Of vice and passion, pleases her.

Premising this, your anger spare;
And claim the fable you who dare.

The BIRDS in place, by faction press’d,
To JUPITER their pray’rs address’d;
By specious lies the state was vex’d,
Their counsels libellers perplex’d;
They begg’d (to stop seditious tongues)
A gracious hearing of their wrongs.
Jove grants their suit. The EAGLE sate,
Decider of the grand                        
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