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Rh many udas's with Hail Mater in their Mouths! How many Church-Robbers that Write themelves Reformers! In One Word, Men do Naturally love to bethought Greater, Wier, Holier, Braver, and Juter then they Are; and in fine, Better Qualify’d in All Thoe Faculties that may give them Reputation among the People, then we find ‘em to be.

The Moral of This Fable Hits all orts of Arrogant Pretenders, and runs Effectually into the Whole Bus'nes of Humane Life. We have it in the very Cabinets, and Councels of State, the Bar, the Bench, the Change, the Schools, the Pulpits; All Places, in hort, are full of Quacks, Jugglers and Plagiaries, that et up for Men of Quality, Concience, Philoophy, and Religion. So that there are Aes with Short Ears, as well as with Long, and in Robes of Silk and Dignity, as well as in Skins of Hair. In Concluion, An As of the Long Robe, when he comes once to be Detected, looks Infinitely Sillier, then he would have done in his own Shape: Neither is Æsop's As Laugh’d at here for his Ears, or for his Voice, but for his Vanity, and Pretence; for T’other is but according to his own Kind and Nature; and Every thing is Well and Bet, while it Continues to be as God made it.

Worm put forth his Head out of a Dunghil, and made Proclamation of his Skill in Phyick. Pray, ays the Fox, Begin with your Own Infirmities before you Meddle with other Peoples.