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Wanton Heifer that had little Ele to do then to Frisk up and down in a Meadow, at Eae and Pleaure, came up to a Working Oxe with a Thouand Reproaches in her Mouth; Bles me, ays the Heifer, what a Difference there is betwixt your Coat and Condition, and Mine! Why, What a Gall’d Naty Neck have we here! Look ye, Mines as Clean as a Penny, and as mooth as Silk I warrant ye. 'Tis a Slavih Life to be Yoak’d thus, and in Perpetual Labour. What would you give to be as Free and as Eay now as I am? The Oxe kept Thee Things in his Thought, without One Word in Anwer at preent; but eeing the Heifer taken up a While after for a Sacrifice: Well Siter, ays he, and have not you Frisk’d fair now, when the Eae and Liberty you Valu’d your elf upon, has brought you to This End?