FAB. CCCCXXV.

The _Moon_ Begs a _New Gown_.

The _Moon_ was in a heavy Twitter once, that her _Cloaths_ never Fitted

her: Wherefore, Pray Mother, says She, let the Taylor take Measure of me

for a _New-Gown_. Alas Child, says the Mother, how is it possible to make

any one Garment to Fit a Body that appears every Day in a several Shape?

The MORAL.

_’Tis the Humour of many People, to be perpetually Longing for something

or other that’s not to be had._

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