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| P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 | 9 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 9 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| Homer, Odyssey | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Euripides, The Trojan Women (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Leonard C. Smithers) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
| Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Phaedrus, The Fables of Phaedrus (ed. Christopher Smart, Christopher Smart, A. M.). You can also browse the collection for Troy (Massachusetts, United States) or search for Troy (Massachusetts, United States) in all documents.
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Phaedrus, The Fables of Phaedrus (ed. Christopher Smart, Christopher Smart, A. M.), book 3, Of Doubt and Credulity (search)
Of Doubt and Credulity
'Tis frequently of bad event
To give or to withhold assent.
Two cases will th' affair explain-
The good Hippolytus was slain;
In that his stepdame credit found,
And Troy was levell d with the ground;
Because Cassandra's prescious care
Sought, but obtain'd no credence there.
The facts should then be very strong,
Lest the weak judge determine wrong:
But that I may not make too free
With fabulous antiquity,
I now a curious tale shall tell,
Which I myself remember well.
An honest man, that loved his wife,
Was introducing into life
A son upon the man's estate.
One day a servant (whom, of late,
He with his freedom had endu'd)
Took him aside, and being shrewd,
Supposed that he might be his heir
When he'd divulged the whole affair.
Much did he lie against the youth,
But more against the matron's truth:
And hinted that, which worst of all
Was sure a lover's heart to gall,
The visits of a lusty rake,
And honour of his house at stake.
He at this scandal taking heat,
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