Fab. CCCLXXV.
The Dancing Apes.
A Certain Ægyptian King Endow'd a Dancing-School for the Inſtitution of Apes of Quality; and when they came to be Perfect in their Leſſons, they were Dreſs'd up after the beſt manner, and ſo brought forth for a Spectacle upon the Stage. As they were in the Middle of their Gamboles, ſomebody threw a Handful of Apples among them, that ſet them preſently together by the Ears upon the Scramble, without any regard in the World to the Buſineſs in Hand, or to the Dignity of their Education.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
Men have their weak Sides as well as Apes, and it is not in the Power of Study and Diſcipline to extinguiſh Natural Inclinations; no not ſo much as to Conceal them for any long time, but they'l be breaking out now and then by Starts and Surprizes , and diſcover themſelves. The Apes were taught their Apes Tricks by a Dancing Maſter; but it was Nature that taught them to Eat Apples, and the natural Inſtitution was much the ſtronger of the Two.
Fab. CCCLXXVI.
An Aſs and Two Travellers.
A Couple of Travellers that took up an Aſs in a Forreſt, fell downright to Loggerheads, which of the Two ſhould be his Maſter: So the Aſs was to ſtand by, to ſee thoſe Two Boobies try their Title to him by a Rubber at Cuffs. The Aſs very fairly look'd on, 'till they had Box'd themſelves a Weary, and then left them both in the Lurch.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
