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130 to do, we hould Ditinguith betwixt Lawful and Unlawful, Prudential and Foolih, a Les Preent Good, and a Conequence of greater Evils, that we be not Betray’d by the Fair Appearances of Things Specious; Frauds and Fallacies, Glittering Outides, &c. into Inconvenieneyes and Mitakes.

When a Man wants any thing, let him look for’t in Time, and Confider Well beforehand what Occaion he has for’t, and upon What Terms it is to be Had; for there may be uch Conditions that a Man would not Comply with, even for the Saving, or Redeeming of his Life. There are Other Caes, where a Man mut Part with More for the Getting of a Thing, then That Thing is Worth. Some again, where a Body runs the Rique of an Abolute Ruine, for the Gaming of a Preent Supply: Wherefore there's No Remedy eithcr Way, without a Strict Calculation upon the Profit or Los on Both Sides. I want Mony, but I will not make my elf a Slave for’t. I want a Friend at Court, but I will not Forfeit the Character of a Man of Honour, or the Concicnce of a Chritian, and an Honet Man, to Purchae uch a Friend: I am in Prion; but [ will not play the Knave to et my elf at Liberty. Thee are All, Neceary Deliberations upon the Matter here in Quetion. Let us ee how we hall get Out again, ays the Frog, before we go In.

Dog and a Cock took a Journy together. The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Rooted at night upon the Boughs. The Cock crow’d about Midnight; (at his Uual Hour) which brought a Fox that was abroad upon the Hunt, immediately to the Tree; and there he tood Licking of his Lips, at the Cock, and Wheedling him to get him Down. He Proteted he never heard o Angelical a Voice ince he was Born, and what would not He do now, to Hugg the Creature that had given him o Admirable a Serenade! Pray, ays the Cock, peak to the Porter below to open the Door, and Ill come Down to ye: The Fox did as he was Directed, and the Dog preently eiz'd and Worry'd him.

' Good Dicretion, when a Body has to do with an Adverary, that is either too Crafty, or too Strong for him, to turn him off to his Match; but it would be a Cleverer Way yet, to Encounter the Stratagem, and to Defeat One Sham with Another, as the Simplicity of the Cock here was too hard for the Wilynes of the Fox. Experience makes many a Wie Man of