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hat a Mierable Life dot thou lead, ays a Dog to a Lyon, to run Starving up and down thus in Woods and Deerts, without either Meat, or Eae. I am Fat and Fair you ee, and it Cots me neither Labour, nor Pains. Nay, ays the Lyon, you have many a Good Bit no Doubt on’t; but then like a Fool you ubject your elf to the Clogs and Chains that go along with it: But for my Own Part, let him erve that erve Can, and erve Will, I'll Live and Die Free.

Here was a Large Over-grown Pike that had the Fortune to be Carry’d out to Sea by a Strong Current, and he had there the Vanity to Value himelf above All the Fih in the Ocean. We’l refer That (ays a Sturgeon) to the Judgment of the Market, and ee which of the Two Yields the Better Price.

THERE's no Folly like That of Vain Glory, nor any thing more Ridiculous then for a Vain Man to be till Boating of Himelf: For ‘tis againt All Law and Equity, for a Body to be admitted a Judge in ones Own Cae. A econd Doctrine may be This (and we find it True by Experience) that Money Governs the World; and that the Market Price is the