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12 the Teeth outward: Let him, I ay, but et the One in Ballance againt the Other, and he hall find himelf Mierable, even in the very Glutt of his Delights. To ay All in a Word; Let him but et the Comforts of a Life pent in Noie, Formality, and Tumult, againt the Bleings of a Retreat with Competency and Freedom, and then Cat up his Account.

What Man then, that is not tark Mad, will Voluntarily Expoe himelf to the Imperious Brow-beatings and Scorns of Great Men! to have a Dagger truck to his Heart in an Embrace; To be torn to pieces by Calumny, nay to be a Knave in his own Defence! for the Honeter the Wore, in a Vicious Age, and where 'tis a Crime not to be like the Company. Men of that Character are not to be Read, and Undertood by their Words, but by their Interets; their Promies and Protetations are no longer Binding than while they are Profitable. But Baudoin has done o well upon this Fable, that there needs no more to be aid to't.

Here was one of Your Royton-Crows, that lay Battering upon a Mucle, and could not for his Blood break the Shell to come at the Fih. A Carrion-Crow, in this Interim, comes up, and tells him, that what he could not do by Force, he might do by Stratagem. Take this Mucle up into the Air, ays the Crow, as High as you can carry it, and then let him fall upon that Rock there; His Own Weight, You hall ee, hall break him. The Roytoner took his Advice, and it ucceeded accordingly; but while the One was upon Wing, the Other tood Lurching upon the Ground, and flew away with the Fih.