Affection and Reſpect. Menander the Famous Comical Poet was one of the Number, but in ſo Looſe a Garb and Dreſs, and with ſo Unmanly a kind of March and Motion, that Demetrius had his Eye upon him preſently, and call'd Aloud to know how ſuch an Effeminate Sot durſt preſume to Appear in his Preſence. Somebody gave the Tyrant immediately a Whiſper, and told him, Sir ſays he, This is the Poet Menander that you your ſelf have been pleas'd to own ſo Great an Admiration and Eſteem for. Demetrius recollects himſelf, and changes his Humour in the very inſtant; calls Menander to him, and Treats him with all the Inſtances imaginable of a ſingular Liking and Reſpect.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
'Tis no Wonder, where there’s Power on the One Side, to find Flattery and Slavery on the Other: Nor is there any Inference to be drawn from the Outward Pomp of Popular Addreſſes and Applauſe, to an_Inward Congruity of Affections in the Heart: For Bleſſings and Curſings come out of the ſame Mouth. Theſe Noiſy Acclamations are rather made of Mode and Ceremony, then of Zeal and good Will; and the Huzza's of the Rabble are the ſame to a Bear that they are to a Prince, and ſignify no more to the One, then they do to the Other. The Tyrants Reproof here of Menander for his Meen and Garb, and his Recollection then, upon being better Inform'd, are Firſt, to the Honour of his Character, in being ſo Generous as upon ſo ſolemn an Occaſion, to own his Miſtake: And Secondly, Inftructive to us, that we are not to Judge of the Man by his Outſide.
Fab. CCCCXLVIII.
A Conſultation about Securing a Token.
THere was a Council of Mechanicks call'd to Adviſe about the Fortifying of a City; A Bricklayer was for Walling it with Stone; a Carpenter was of Opinion , that Timber would be worth Forty on't: And after them, up ſtarts a Currier,Gentlemen,
