The Moral.
REFLEXION.
There's No Peace to be Expected among thoſe that are Naturally Fierce and Quarrelſome. But we are to Diſtinguith however, betwixt Injuries of Malice, and of Evil Nature, as we do betwixt Violences in Hot Bloud, and Thoſe of Deliberate Spite and Intention; which we find in the Common Caſes of Manſlaughter, and Murder. The Doctrine may be briefly This, that ſo far as Poſſible, we are to Avoid Ill Company: but where we are forcd upon’t, there’s No Remedy but Patience. The Cocks here Did but according to their Kind; And it is the Same Thing with Wicked Men too, (as Birds of the ſame Feather) to be Troubleſome to Other People as well as to One Another.
Fab. LXXXV.
A Bragging Traveller.
A Vain Fellow that had been abroad in the World, would ſtill be Tiring All Peoples Ears at his Return, with Stories of his Wonderful Actions and Adventures in his Travels; and particularly, he told of a Leap he took at Rhodes, that No Body there could come within Six Foot on't. Now This (ſays he) I am able to Prove by ſeveral Witneſſes upon the Place. If This be True (ſays one of the Company) there's No Need of going to Rhodes for Witneſſes: Do but You fancy this to be Rhodes, and then ſhew us the Leape.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
