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286 to Prevent the Plague of Ill Company, by avoiding the Occaions of it. The Linking of a Man of Brains and Honety into a Lewd Inipid Converation, is Effectually but the Moral of That Tyrant, that Bound the Living, and the Dead together, and yet This is it which the Impertiaent takes for the Relief of Solitude, and the Bleing of That which he calls Company.

Here goes a Story of a Wolfe, that Wrapt himelf up in a Sheep-skin, and Worry'd Lambs for a Good while under That Diguie; but the Shepherd Met with him at lat, and Trut him up, Sheeps-skin and all, upon an Eminent Gibbet, for a Spectacle, and an Example. The Neighbours made a Wonderment of it, and Ask’d him what he meant to Hang up his Sheep? Oh, ays he, That's only the Skin of a Sheep, that was made ue of to Cover the Heart, Malice, and Body of a Wolfe that Shrouded himelf Under it.