Fab. CLXXIV.
A Wolfe and a Kid.
A Wolfe ſpy'd out a Straggling Kid, and Purſu’d him. The Kid found that the Wolfe was too Nimble for him, and ſo turn’d and told him: I perceive I am to be Eaten, and I would gladly Die as Pleaſantly as I could: Wherefore, Pray give me but One Touch of Your Pipe before I go to Pot. The Wolfe Play’d, and the Kid Danc'd, and the Noiſe of the Pipe brought in the Dogs upon him. Well (ſays the Wolfe) This 'tis when People will be Meddling out of their Profeſſion, My Bus’neſs was to Play the Butcher, not the Piper.
The MORAL.
REFLEXION.
LET Every Man ſtick to his Own Part, without Taking Another Man's Trade out of his Hand. This is the Old Moral, but we may Read upon't Another way too. 'Tis a very Unequal Encounter, when Malice, Craft, and Power, are United againſt the Weak, and the Innocent: Saving where Providence Interpoſes to the Relief of the one, and to the Infatuation of the Other: As the Wolfe here, that had a Plot upon the Kid, was Confounded by a Counter-Plot of the Kids upon the Wolfe: And ſuch a Counter-Plot it was too, as the Wolfe with All his Sagacity was not able to Smell out. Wherefore let no Man Preſume too much upon his Own Strength, either of Body or of Mind; but Conſider within himſelf, that Heaven takes Part with the Oppreſſed; and that Tyrants Themſelves are upon their Behavior to a Superior Power.
Fab. CLXXV.
A Fox and a Crab.
A Fox that was Sharp-ſet, Surpriz’d a Crab, as he lay out of the Sea upon the Sands, and Carry’d him away. The Crab, when he found that he was to be Eaten, Well (ſays he) This comes of Meddling where we have Nothing to do; for My Bus’neſs lay at Sea, not upon the Land.
The MORAL.
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