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Here was a Bargain truck up betwixt an Eagle and a Fox, to be Wonderful Good Neighbours and Friends. The One Took up in a Thicket of Bruhwood, and the Other Timber’d upon a Tree hard by. The Eagle, One Day When the Fox was abroad a Foraging fell into his Quarters and carry’d away a Whole Litter of Cubbs at a Swoop. The Fox came time enough back to ee the Eagle upon Wing, with her Prey in the Foot, and to fend many a Heavy Cure after her; but there was No overtaking her: It happen’d in a very Short time after This, upon the Sacrificing of a Goat, that the ame Eagle made a Stoop at a piece of Fleh upon the Altar, and he took it away to her Young: But Some Live Coales it eems, that Stuck to't, et the Net a fire. The Birds were not as yet Fledge enough to Shift for Themelves, but upon Sprawling and Snuggling to get Clear of the Flame, down they Tumbled, half Roated into the very Mouth of the Fox, that tood Gaping under the Tree to ee the End on't: So that the Fox had the atisfaction at lat, of Devouring the Children of her Enemy in the very Sight of the Damm,

is to give Great Men to Undertand, that No Power upon Earth can Protest them in the Exercie of Tyranny and Injutice; but that Sooner, or Later, Vengeance will Overtake Oppreors. It does likewie Condemn Treachery, and breach of Faith, even toward the mot Perfidious.

The Morality of This Fiction looks everal Ways. Here’s firt a League betwixt an Eagle and a Fox; which would be a mot Incongruous Allyance, if it were not in the cae of That Princely Birds Departure from the Dignity ot her Character, and from the Obligation of Royal Jutice: o that Æop has aptly enough Match’d a Faith-Breaking Prince, with a Perfidious Subject, and Fancy’d a Knavih Favourite, as the Fittet Miniter for uch a Governour. In the Eagles Detroying the Foxes Cubbs, there's Power Excecis'd_with Oppreion, and the Cures of the Fox that Puru'd the Oppreor, were not ent in Vain neither, as appears by the Se