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Pigeon that was brought up in a Dove-Houe, was Bragging to a Crow how Fruitful he was. Never Value Your elf ays the Crow upon That Vanity; for the More Children, the more Sorrow.

THE Care, Charge, and Hazzard of a Brood of many Children, in the Education and Proof of them, does, in a Great Meaure, Countervail the Bleing: Epecially where they are gotten in a State of Slavery. Sorrow and Vexation is Entail’d upon the whole Race of Mankind. We are Begotten to't; We are Born to't; and as it has Decended to us, o it is by us to be Handed down to Thoe that come after us. The Stre of the Fable lies upon the Hazzard of having a Numerous Stock of Children,