to our Journey's End, then a Fluttering Way of Advancing by Starts and by Stops; for 'tis Perſeverance Alone that can carry us Thorough-Stitch.
Fab. CXXXIV..
Apples and Horſe-Turds.
UPon a very great Fall of Rain, the Current carry’d Away a Huge Heap of Apples, together with a Dunghill that lay in the Water-Courſe, They Floated a good while together like Brethren and Companions; and as they went thus Dancing down the Stream, the Horſe-Turds would be every foot crying out ſtill, Alack a day! How Wee Apples Swim!
Fab. CXXXV.
A Peach, an Apple, and a Blackberry.
THere happen'd a Controverſie once betwixt a Peach, and an Apple, which was the Fairer Fruit of the Two. They were ſo Loud in their Diſcourſe, that a Blackberry from the next Hedg, Over-heard them. Come (ſays the Blackberry) We are All Friends, and pray let's have No Jangling among our ſelves.
The Moral of the Two Fables above.
REFLEXION.
[Wee] Apples cry the Horſe Turds [Wee] the Kings Officers, crys the Fellow that carrys Guts to the Bears [Wee] crys the Scumm of the Nation to the Bench, to the Court, to the City, to the Church, to Parliaments, and Councels. There’s Nothing ſo Great, but the Little People cry [Wee] to’t ſtill. [Wee'l] do This, and [Wee’l] do That, and [Wee'l] Undertake for This and T’other, This is in a Familiar Way, the Common Style of the Licentious Multitude, to the Scandal of all Honorable Commiſſions, and of Thoſe that Manage them. And This Humour of [Weeing] holds as well in Matters of State, and of Underſtanding, as inthe
