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152 put on all Appearances in Matter of Opinion, Practice and Pretence, Suitable to the Humour they are to Joyn withall: But till Some Unlucky Accident or Other happens to Dicover them in the End; and then, when they would go off again, the People of their Own Plume and Colour Beat ‘em away, and Refue to Entertain them. This is no more then what we find to be True in All Turns of State. Double-Dealers may Pas Muter for a While, but All Parties Wah their Hands of them in the Concluion.

Country Fellow took a Daw and ty'd a String to his Leg; and o gave him to a Little Boy to Play withal. The Daw did not much like his Companion, and upon the Firt Opportunity gave him the Slip, and away into the Woods again, where he was Shackled and Starv'd. When he came to Die, he Reflected upon the Folly of Expoing his Life in the Woods, rather then Live in an Eaie Servitude among Men.