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Sop brought the Samians to their Wits again out of a mot Deperate Sedition with This Fable.

A Fox, upon the Croing of a River, was forc'd away by the Current into an Eddy, and there he lay with Whole Swarms of Flies, Sucking and Galling of him. There was a Water Hedge Hog (we mut Imagine) at hand, that in Pure Pity Offer'd to Beat away the Flies from him. No, No, ays the Fox, Pray let 'em Alone, for the Flies that are upon me now are e'en Burting full already, and can do me little more Hurt then they have done: But when Thee are gone once, there will be a Company you hall ee of Starv'd Hungry Wretches to take their Places, that will not leave o much as One Drop of Blood in the Whole Body of me.