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140 of the Damm will never out of the Whelp. It may Supend peradventure, or Intermit, for want of Occaion to hew it elfe; but Nature is like Mercury, there's No killing it Quite. The Wolfe in the Houe has a Kindnes till for the Wolves in the Woods, and continues in the Interet of the ame Common Enemy. Cat will to Kind, as they ay, and Wicked Men willbe True to their Principles, how Fase oever to their Maters.

We may read in the Moral of This Fable, the common Practice of the World, and a Doctrine that we find Every day Verify'd, as well in Men, as in Beats; for there are Wolf-Whelps in Palaces, and Governments, as well as in Cottages, and Forrets. Do we not find in Hitory, and Experience, Intances in abundance, even of Publique Miniters Themelves, that though taken up out of the very Herds of the Common Enemy; Admitted into Special Truts; Fed by the Hand, and Treated with the Grace and Character of Particular Favourites, have their Hearts in the Woods yet all this while among their Fellows. So that there’s No Reclayming of them. They go out however, as there is Occaion, and Hunt and Growle for Company; but at the ame time, they give the Sign out of their Maters hand, hold Intelligence with the Enemy; and Make ue of their Power and Credit to Worry Honeter Men then Themelves. It wants Nothing after This, but that they may live to have their Due; and with the Dog here in the Fable, go to Heaven in a String, according to the True Intent of the Allegory.

He King of Beats was now grown Old, and Sickly, and All his Subjects of the Forret, (aving only the Fox) were to pay their Duties to him. The Wolfe, and the Fox like a Couple of Sly Knaves, were till putting Tricks One upon Another, and the Wolfe took This Occaion to do the Fox a Good Office. I can Aure your Majety, ays the Wolfe, that 'tis Nothing but Pride and Inolence that keeps the Fox from hewing himelf at Court as well as his Companions. Now the Fox had the Good Luck to be within Hearing, and o Preented himelf before the Lyon, and finding him Extremely Enrag'd, begs his Majeties Patience, and a Little Time only for his Defence. Sir (ays he) I mut preume to Value my elf upon my Repect and Loyalty to your Majety, Equal at leat to any of your other Subjects; and I will be bold to ay, that put them all together, they have not taken Half the pains for your Majeties Service now upon This very Occaion, that I have done. I have been Hunting up and down far and near, ince your Unhappy Indipofition, to find out a Remedy for ye, which with much ado I have now Compas'd at lat, and it is that which I Promie my elf will Prove an Infallible Cure. Tell me immediately (ays the Lyon) what it is then: Nothing in the World ays the Fox, but to Flay a Wolfe Alive, and Wrap your Body up in