{"product_id":"2940014566803","title":"Moores Fables for the Female Sex with Illustrations","description":"The KITE rose up. His honest heart\u003cbr\u003eIn VIRTUE’S suff’rings bore a part.\u003cbr\u003eThat there were birds of prey he knew;\u003cbr\u003eSo far the libeller said true,\u003cbr\u003e“Voracious, bold, to rapine prone,\u003cbr\u003eWho knew no int’rest but their own;\u003cbr\u003eWho, hov’ring o’er the farmer’s yard,\u003cbr\u003eNor pigeon, chick, nor duckling spar’d.”\u003cbr\u003eThis might be true—but if apply’d\u003cbr\u003eTo him, in troth, the sland’rer ly’d.\u003cbr\u003eSince IGN’RANCE then might be misled,\u003cbr\u003eSuch things, he thought, were best unsaid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe CROW was vext. As yester-morn\u003cbr\u003eHe flew across the new-sown corn,\u003cbr\u003eA screaming boy was set for pay,\u003cbr\u003eHe knew, to drive the CROWS away:\u003cbr\u003eScandal had found him out in turn,\u003cbr\u003eAnd buzz’d abroad—that CROWS love corn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe OWL arose, with solemn face,\u003cbr\u003eAnd thus harangu’d upon the case:\u003cbr\u003e‘That MAGPIES prate, it may be true;\u003cbr\u003eA KITE may be voracious too;\u003cbr\u003eCrows sometimes deal in new-sown pease;\u003cbr\u003eHe libels not, who strikes at these;\u003cbr\u003eThe slander’s here—“But there are birds,\u003cbr\u003eWhose wisdom lies in looks, not words;\u003cbr\u003eBlund’rers who level in the dark,\u003cbr\u003eAnd always shoot beside the mark.”\u003cbr\u003eHe names not me; but these are hints\u003cbr\u003eWhich manifest at whom he squints;\u003cbr\u003eI were indeed that blund’ring fowl,\u003cbr\u003eTo question if he meant an OWL.’\u003cbr\u003e“Ye wretches, hence!” the EAGLE cries,\u003cbr\u003e“’Tis conscience, conscience that applies;\u003cbr\u003eThe virtuous mind takes no alarm,\u003cbr\u003eSecur’d by innocence from harm;\u003cbr\u003eWhile GUILT, and his associate, FEAR,\u003cbr\u003eAre startled at the passing air.”","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121194156272,"sku":"2940014566803","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014566803_p0.jpg?v=1763611057","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014566803","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}