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Cuckow was asking everal Little Birds, what made them o Shy of coming into her Company. They told her, that he was o like a Hawk, they did not care to have any thing to do with her.

hould a Regard be had in all our Actions and Counels, to the Nicety of the matter in Quetion. This is to tell us, that the very Appearances of Evil are to be Avoided, and all the Semblances of Danger to be well Examin'd and Confider'd. Why hould not a Bird as well trut a Hawk that's like a Cuckow, as trut a Cuckow that's like a Hawk? Two Likes may be Mitaken, and a Man cannot be too wary where the Error is Mortal. There may be a Diguie ‘tis true, in the one cae, and a miapprehenion in the other; but it is afer yet to tand upon our Guard againt an Enemy in the likenes of a Friend, then to Embrace any Man for a Friend in the likenes of an Enemy. There’s No Snare like Credulity, when the Bait that's laid for us is cover'd with the pretence of a Good Office. Neither are there any Impotures fo Pernicious, as thoe that are put upon us by Fair Reemblances, He that is