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126 voury Vapour of her Own, and yet would be Perpetually Inveighing againt Foul Breaths. Now This way of Covering Defects, Scandals or Inconvenicnces, is the Only Way of Expoing them.

Flight of Waps, and a Covy of Partridges that were hard put to’t for Water, went to a Farmer, and begg'd a Soup of him to Quench their Thirt. The Partridges offer'd to Dig his Vineyard for't, and the Waps to ecure him from Thieves. Pray hold your Hand, ays the Good Man; I have Oxen and Dogs that do me Thee Offices already, without tanding upon Terms. And therefore it will become me to Provide for Them in the Firt Place.

is a Humane, as well as a Chritian Virtue, and there is a Place for it, even upon Brutes, under the Duty of Tendernes and Good Nature, as well as upon Men; but till with a Ditinction by way of Preference, that it is to be Employ’d in the Firt Place upon Thoe that have the Fairet Right to't: ‘Tis One thing I mut Confes, to Condition for a Good Office, and Another thing to do it Gratis; o that the Husbandman took the Propoal by the Right Handle in That Repect: But his being provided of Servants already, to do his Work was no Excue for his Want of Charity to Relieve his Ditreed Neighbor.

Upiter had Preents made him upon his Wedding-Day, Greater, or Les, from All Living Creatures. A Serpent brought him a Roe in his Mouth for an Offering. The Thing was Acceptable enough, but not the Preenter; for (ays Jupiter) though Gifts are Wellcome to me, of Themelves, I mut not yet receive any from a Serpent.