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228 Houe: Well! ays the Cuckow (in Conceit) to the Hawk, and had not you as good have been Eating Worms now, as Pigeons?

S a Country-man was Grazing his As in a Meadow, comes a Hot Alarum that the Enemy was jut falling into their Quarters. The Poor Man calls preently to his As, in a Terrible Fright, to Scoure away as fat as he could Scamper: for, ays he, we hall be Taken ele. Well, quoth the As, and what if we hould be Taken? I have One Pack-Saddle upon my Back already, will they Clap Another a top of that d'ye Think? I can but be a Slave wherever I am: So that Taken, or not Taken, 'tis all a Cae to Me.