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Rh Known Wolves, we Kuow likewie that they are not to be Confided in. But this Wolfe (I mut Confes) with a Lambskin over his Shoulders, might have pat Muter for a Gopeller in Sheeps Cloathing; which would have made it a more Dangerous Impoture, We are to Gather from hence, that there’s no Truting to the Fair Words and Appearances of a Fale, and a Malicious Enemy; for their very Kindnees are no better then Snares. Treachery is a kind of a Lay-Hypocriy, and they are Equally Odious both to God and Man: Over and above the Corruptingg of our Manners, the Hardening of our Hearts; the Diolving of all the Bonds of Faith, Confidence and Society, and the Extinguihing of Good Nature it elf: And all This in our own Defence too.

Here goes an Old Story of a Bloudy War betwixt the Hares; and the Eagles; and the Hares would fain have drawn the Foxes into their Alliance, but very Franckly and Civilly, they gave them this Anwer, That they would erve them with all their Hearts, if they did not Perfectly Undertand both the Hares themelves, and the Enemy they were to Cope withal.