I own the moral not exact; Besides, the tale is false in fact; And so absurd, that, could I raise up From fields Elysian, fabling Æsop; I would accuse him to his face, For libelling the four-foot race.
— from The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift

He had even looked up the two Americans who rode up from Florence every day; but he found that they were outside the pale of his suspicions; one of them was a millionaire, known to the Italian ambassador in the United States; so he dismissed them as negligible quantities.
— from The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath

I own the moral not exact, Besides, the tale is false, in fact; And so absurd, that could I raise up, From fields Elysian, fabling Æsop, I would accuse him to his face, For libelling the four-foot race.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift