Moores Fables for the Female Sex
Edward Moore's verse fables, first published in 1744 and reprinted here in 1806 with engravings. Moore addresses them to the Princess of Wales and says plainly who they are for: the proud, the envious and the vain, the jilt and the prude. He flatters nobody — the great and good are understood by their actions, and a monument raised by deeds is not to be defaced with idle praise — and instead holds up a glass to all comers as they pass. The first fable, The Eagle and the Assembly of Birds, sets the method: truth under fiction, to weed out folly from the heart.
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