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32 of; as Vircue, Widom, and the Like. The Excellency, in fine, of of the Soul is above the Beauty of the Body: Not but that the Graces of the One, and the Endowments of the Other, may Encounter ometimes, (how rarely oever) in One and the Same Peron. But Beauty and Judgment are o far yet from being Ineparable, that they eem Effectually to Require, More or Les, a Diverity of Temperament: Beide that More Care is taken to Cultivate the Advantages of the Body than thoe of the Mind. To Wrap up all in a Word, the World it elf is but a Great Shop of Carv'd Heads; and the Fox's Conceit will hold as well in the Life, as in the Fiction.

Daw that had a mind to be Sparkih, Trick'd himelf up with all the Gay-Feathers he could Muter together: And upon the Credit of thee Stoll'n, or Borrow'd Ornaments, he Valu'd himelf above All the Birds in the Air Beide. The Pride of This Vanity got him the Envy of all his Companions, who, upon a Dicovery of the Truth of the Cae, fell to Pluming of him by Conent; and when Every Bird had taken his Own Feather; the Silly Daw had Nothing left him to Cover his Nakednes.