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Lyon fell in Love with a Country Las, and deir'd her Father’s Conent to have her in Marriage. The Anwer he gave was Churlih enough. He'd never Agree to't he ay'd, upon any Terms, to Marry his Daughter to a Beat. The Lyon gave him a Sowr Look upon't, which brought the Bumkin, upon Second Thoughts, to trike up a Bargain with him, upon thee Conditions; that his Teeth hould be Drawn, and his Nailes Par'd; for Thoe were Things, he ay'd, that the Foolih Girle was Terribly afraid of. The Lyon ends for a Surgeon immediately to do the Work; (as what will not Love make a Body do?) And o oon as ever the Operation was Over, he goes and Challenges the Father upon his Promie. The Countryman eeing the Lyon Diarmd, Pluck’d up a Good Heart, and with a Swindging Cudgel o Order'd the Matter, that he broke off the Match.

Fable will look well enough in the Moral, how Fantalical oever it may appear at firt Bluh in the Lines and Traces of it. Here's a Beat in Love with a Virgin; which is but a Revere of the Prcpoterous Paions we meet with Frequently in the World, when Reaonable Creatures of Both Sexes fall in love with Thoe, that in the Alluion may (allmot without a Figure) pas for Beats. There’s Nothing o Fierce, or o Savage, but Love will Soften it; Nothing o Generous but it will Debauche it; Nothing o harp ighted in Other Matters, but it throws a Mit before the Eyes on't. It puts the Philoopher beide his Latin; and to umm up All in a Little, where This Paion Domineers, neither Honour, nor Vir