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Rh Stag’s was a Forc'd-Put; and a Chance rather then a Choice, he did not fly from the Huntmen to the Lyon for Protection; bur it o tell out, that while he fled to Avoid a Les Danger, he ran into a Greater; We find This to be the Cae of many Men, as well as Beats, that are Forc'd to Fly for Refuge, to Murderers and Oppreors, intead of Patrons and Protectors.

Goat that was hard Prefs'd by the Huntmen, took Sanctuary in a Vineyard, and there he lay Cloe, under the Covert of a Vine. So oon as he thought the Danger was Over, he fell preently to Browzing upon the Leaves; and whether it was the Ruling, or the Motion of the Boughs, that gave the Huntmen an Occaion for a Stricter Search, is Uncertain: but a Search there was, and in the End Dicover'd the Goat, and hot him. He dy’d in fine, with this Conviction upon him, that his Punihment was Jut, for offering Violence to his Protector.

S a Cock and an Ae were Feeding together, up comes a Lion Open-Mouth toward the Ae: The Cock preently cryes out;