The MORAL.
REFLEXION.
KNAVES Set up theſe Jugglers, and Fools Maintain them. There muſt be Forms however, Characters, and Hard Words, Crabbbed Looks, and Canting Calculations, for the Colour of the Pretence; but People ſhould have a Care yet, not to take a Confederacy for a Science.
Fab. CLXXII.
A Hound and a Maſtiffe.
THere was a Man had Two Dogs; One for the Chace, T'other to look to the Houſe; and whatever the Hound took Abroad, the Honſe-Dog had his Part on’t at Home. T'other Grumbled at it, that when He took All the Pains, the Maſtiffe ſhould Reap the Fruit of his Labours. Well, ſays the Houſe-Dog, That’s None of my Fault, but my Maſters, that has not Train'd me up to Work for my ſelf, but to Eat what others have Provided for me.
The MORAL.
REFLEXION.
MORE People are loft for want of a Good Education and Inſtitution,then for want of Honeſt and Honourable inclinations; and Theſe are Miſcariages that Parents and Tutors are in a Great Meaſure to Anſwer for. We are here given to Underſland, — that there are Offices of Truſt alſo, as well as Offices of Labour, and the One as Neceſſary to the Common Good as the Other. The Maſtiffe Maintains the Hound, as well as the Hound the Maſtiffe; and if the One did not keep the Houſe from being Robb'd, the Other would have Nothing to Eat in't at all. So that This Fable, upon the Whole Matter, will ſerve for a Political Reading to Princes and Governors, as well as to Maſters of Private Families, upon the Reciprocal Uſe, Benefit, and Neceſſity of Induſtry and Protection betwixt Rulers and Subjects, for the Protecion of a Common-wealth: The One Supplics us with what we Want, ant the Other Supports Us in the Defence of what we Get, and neither would Signifie any thing to us without the Other.
Fab.
