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Man gave Mony for a Black, upon an Opinion that his Swarthy Colour was rather Flattery then Nature; and the Fault of his lat Mater, in a Great Meaure, that he kept him no Cleaner: He took him Home with him, and try‘d All manner of Wahes to bring him to a Better Complexion: But there was no Good to be Done upon him; beide, that the very Tampering Cat him into a Dieae.

Raven had a Great Mind to be as White as a Swan, and fancy'd to Himelf that the Swan's Beauty proceeded in a High Degree, from his often Wahing and Dyet. The Raven upon This Quitted his Former Coure of Life and Food, and betook himelf to the Lakes and the Rivers: But as the Water did him no Good at all for his Complexion, o the Experiment Cot him his Life too for want of Sutenance.



Pon a Dipuce betwixt a Swallow and a Crow, which was the Greater Beauty of the Two: Yours, ays the Crow is only a Spring-Beauty, bur mine lats all the Year round.