ſhe was Then Muzzling, and Cokeſing of it. That's a Good Dear, ſays ſhe, If the Wolfe comes for My Child, We'll e'en Beat bis Brains out. The Wolfe went Muttering away upont. There's No Meddling with People, ſays he, that ſay One Thing and Mean Another.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
THE Heart and Tongue of a Woman are commonly a Great way aſunder. And it may bear Another Moral; which is, that ‘tis with Froward Men, and Froward Factions too, as ‘tis with Froward Children, They'll be ſooner Quieted by Fear, and Rough Dealing, then by any Senſe of Duty or Good Nature. There would be no Living in This World without Penal Laws, and Conditions. And Do or Do not, This or That at your Peril, is as Reaſonable, and Neceſſary in Families as it is in Governments. It is a Truth Imprinted in the Hearts of All Mankind, that the Gibbets, Pillories, and the Whipping-Poſts make more Converts then the Pulpits: As the Child did more here for fear of the Wolfe, then for the Love of the Nurſe.
Fab. CCXX.
An Eagle and a Tortoiſe.
A Tortoiſe was thinking with himſelf, how Irkſom a ſort of Life it was, to ſpend All his Days in a Hole, with a a Houſe upon his Head, when ſo many Other Creatures had the Liberty to Divert Themſelves in the Free, Freſh Air, and to Ramble about at Pleaſure. So that the Humor took him One Day, and he muſt needs get an Eagle to Teach him to Fly. The Eagle would fain have put him off, and told him 'twas a Thing againſt Nature, and Common Senſe; but (according to the Freak of the Wilful Part of the World) the More the One was Againſt it, the More the Other was For it: And when the Eagle ſaw that the Tortoiſe would not be ſaid Nay, ſhe took him up a matter of Steeple-high into the Air, and there turn’d him Looſe to ſhift for Himſelf. That is to ſay; ſhe dropt him down, Squab upon a Rock, that Daſh’d him to Pieces.
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