1.Wootton in. B. Baron f. A FABLE XXIX. The Fox at the point of death. Fox, in life's extream decay, Weak, fick and faint, expiring lay; All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him stand Ah fons, from evil ways depart, Where, Sir, is all this dainty cheer? O gluttons, fays the drooping fire; Restrain inordinate defire; Your liqu'rish tafte you shall deplore, And never feel the quiet hour. Old-age, (which few of us fhall know) Let honefty your paffions rein; And, the good-name you loft, redeem. And infamy hath mark'd our race. 4 1 Though Though we, like harmless sheep, fhould feed, Honeft in thought, in word, and deed, Whatever hen-rooft is decreas'd, We shall be thought to fhare the feast. |