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Rh ’tis too much to Superadd Powerful Temptations to do Wrong, to the Force of Vicious Inclinations to do it. The Boar’s Whetting his Teeth, was only an Act of Neceary Precaution, for fear of the Wort: And the Porcupine did Wiely too, in keeping himelf upon his Guard when the Enemy was in View.



Simple Moue had the Fortune to be near at hand, when a Kite was taken in a Net. The Kite begg’d of her to try it he could help her out. The Moue Gnaw’d a Hole in’t, and et her at Liberty; and the Kite Eat up the Moue for her Pains.