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S a Lyon was Blutering in the Forret, up comes a Gnat to his very Beard, and Enters into an Expotulation with him upon the Points of Honour and Courage. What do I Value your Teeth, or your Claws, ays the Gnat, that are but the Arms of Every Bedlam Slut? As to the Matter of Reolution; I defy ye to put That Point immediately to an Iue. So the Trumpet Sounded and the Combatants Enter'd the Lits. The Gnat Charg'd into the Notrils of the Lyon, and there Twing'd him, till he made him Tear himelf with his Own Paws. And in the Concluion he Mater’d the Lyon. Upon This, a Retreat was Sounded, and the Gnat flew his way: But by ill-hap afterward, in his Flight, he truck into a Cobweb, where the Victor fell a Prey to a Spider. This Digrace went to the Heart of him, after he had got the Better of a Lyon to be Worlted by an Inect.