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408 Contend with him; o that conequently no Creature of les Force is upon any Terms to Encounter him. Not but that there are ome pecial Intances to the contrary, in Exception to the General Rule. The Moralit makes the Event to confirm the Reaon, and to upport the Authority of the Lions Council. It may pas likewie in ome ort, for a Punihment of Diobedience to a Parent; but there's the Voice of Providence and Widom in't, as well as the Voice of a Father; which is intimated in hewing us, that the Yoak of Oxen, and the Hore that tood Bridled and Sadled, had a Man till to their Mater.

Sparrow happen’d to take a Buh jut as an Eagle made a Stoop at a Hare, and when he had got her in the Foot, Poor Wat cry'd out for Help. VVell, (ays the Sparrow) and why don't_ye Run for’t now? I thought your Footmanhip would have Sav'd ye. In this very Moment: comes a Hawk, and whips away the Sparrow; which gave the Dying Hare this Conolation in her lat Ditres, that he aw her Inolent Enemy overtaken with a jut Vengeance, and that the Hard-Hearted Creature that had no Pity for Another, could obtain, none for her elf neither, when he tood mot in need on’t.