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48 mall that the Requet was Eaily Granted; but when the Timber-Trees came to find that the Whole Wood was to be Cut down by the Help of This Handle; There's No Remedy, they cry'd, but Patience, when People are undone by their own Folly.

Workman was Cutting down a Tree to make Wedges of it. Well! ays the Tree, I cannot but be extremely Troubled at the Thought of what I'm now a doing; And I do not o much Complain neither, of the Axe that does the Execution, as of the Man that Guides it; but it is My Miery that I am to be Detroy'd by the Fruit of my own Body.

N Eagle that was Watching upon a Rock once for a Hare, had the Ill Hap to be Struck with an Arrow. This Arrow, it eems, was Feather'd from her own Wing, Which very Conideration went nearer her Heart, he aid, than Death it elf.

T was the Fortune of a Poor Thruh, among other Birds, to be taken with a Buh of Lime-Twigs, and the Mierable Creature Reflecting upon it, that the Chief Ingredient in the Birdlime came out of her own Guts: I am not half o much Troubled, ays the Thruh, at the Thought of Dying, as at the Fatality of Contributing to my Own Ruine.

REFLEXION.