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A26505	Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists with morals and reflexions / by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538.; Avianus. Fabulae. English.; Astemio, Lorenzo. Fabulae. English.; Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459. Facetiae. English. Selections.	1692 (1692)	Wing A706; ESTC R6112	424,392	527

Fox that lost his Tayl. 101 Fox and Bramble 102 Fox and Crocodile 103 Fox and Huntsman 104 Fox and Grapes 129 Fox and Crab. 17●… Fox Condemn'd 406 Fox and Wolfe 4●… Fox and Cock sore Eye 4●… Fox and Dragon 47●… Fowler and Pigeon 66 Fowler and Chaffinch 291 Fowler and Blackbird 96 Fowler and Partridge 132 Fool and a Hot Iron 438 Fool and a Sieve 465 Fortune-Teller 92 Fortune and Two Friends 453 Frog and Mouse 4 Frogs Chuse a King 19 Frog and Oxe 35 Frogs and Tortoises 286 Frogs wanting Water 142 Frogs Two Neighbors 165 Frogs and Bulls 404 Frogs and Sun 405 Fryer Laique and Wolfe 366 Friends Few 486 One had a mind to Try his Friends 337 G   FAB Gard'ner and his Dog 151 Gard'ner and his Landlord 387 Gard'ner and Mole 440 Gnat and Bee 345 A Man Refuses a Glyster 313 Gnat and Lyon 201 One Dreamt he found Gold 359 Goat and Vine 149 Gourd and Pine 380 Goose and Gosslin 222 H   FAB Hares and Frogs 27 Hare and Sparrow 431 Hare and Tortoise 1●…3 Hares Foxes and Eagles 187 Two Men and a Halter 477 Hen and Golden Eggs. 247 Hermit and Soldier 301 Hedge-Hog and Snake 324 Hen and Swallow 195 Hedge destroy'd 449 Sick Hermit 281 Hercules and Pluto 455 Horse and Lyon 37 Horse and Hog 299 Horse Skittish 479 Horse-man's Wig Blown off 228 Hound and Mastiff 172 Husband-man and Stork 73 Husband-man and Ceres 256 Husband-man turn'd Soldier and Merchant 305 Husband Wife and Ghostly Father 357 Husband and Wife twice Marry'd 302 Hunts-man and Currier 300 Husband Iealous 312 Hypocrite 497 I   FAB Image Expos'd to Sale 446 Impertinent and a Philosopher 327 Impertinent Doctor and Patient 205 Impostor to the Oracle 86 Industry and Sloth 352 Joy and Sorrow near a-kin 433 Jupiter and an Ape 213 Jupiter and a Bee 125 Jupiter and a Serpent 138 Jupiter and Frauds 183 Jupiter and Modesty 184 Jupiter's Wedding 185 Jupiter and a Herds-man 200 Jupiter's Altar Robb'd 385 Jupiter and a Farmer 435 Jupiter's Two Wallets 388 K   FAB Kite Sick and her Mother 17 Kite Hawk and Pigeons 20 King and a Rich Subject 389 Kingsfisher 167 L   FAB Lark and her Young 52 Lark in a Net 145 Lapwing Preferr'd 297 Lad Robbing an Orchard 342 Large Promises 111 Lamb Wolfe and Goat 384 Laconique Try'd and Cast. 492 Lady in Tears for a Set of Horses 496 Luck Good and Bad. 230 Lyon and Bear 5 Lyon Old 14 Lyon and Mouse 16 Lyon and Frog 202 Lyon and Goat 210 Lyon and Bulls 236 Lyon and Man 240 Lyon and Mouse 303 Lyon and Hog 344 Lyon and Bull. 120 Lyon in Love 121 Lyon Fox and Wolfe 156 Lyon and Man in the Wood. 430 Lyon Boar and Vulturs 456 Lyon Generous 472 Lyon Raging 412 M   FAB Man and Satyr 2●… Man Wicked and the Devil 308 One that Cur'd Mad-men 368 Man and Weazle 441 Man and a Swallow 127 Man and a Wooden God 105 Man and the Picture of a Lyon 100 Man and Two Wives 141 Unhappy Match 173 Young Fellow about to Marry 425 Matchiavel Condemn'd 49●… Mercury and Fishermen 37●… Mercury and a Traveller 9●… Mercury and a Carpenter 12●… Mercury and a Statuary 170 Mercury and Tiresias 171 Merchant and a Sea-man 390 Mice and Oak 287 Mice Cat and Bell. 391 Millar and Ratt 500 Miser burying his Gold 146 Miser and his Bags 351 Miser and Rotten Apples 458 Mountain in Labour 23 Mountebank and Bear 478 No to Morrow 495 Mouse in a Chest. 255 Mouse City and Country 11 Mouse and Kite 321 Mole and her Dam. 13●… Moon begs a New Gown 425 Mule Boasting 418 Musician 176 N   FAB Nightingale and Hawk 343 Nightingale and Bat. 462 One would hear no Ill News 457 Nurse and Wolfe 219 O   FAB Oak and Reed 215 Old Fellow and Young Wench 278 Owl and Lirtle Birds 379 Owl and the Sun 434 Ox and Heifer 249 Oxen and Timber 294 Oxen and a piece of Timber 265 One carry'd his Plough to Ease his   Oxen. 373 P   FAB Peacock to Iuno 80 Peacock and Pye 204 Peacock and Crane 234 Peach Apple and Black-berry 135 Pigeon and Pye 260 Pigeon and Picture 196 Pigeon and Crow 197 ●…ons Reconcile the Hawks 347 〈◊〉 sets up for Sovereignty 334 Plain Horse wins the Prize 339 One that Lost his Money at Play 370 Priest and Pears 298 Priest and Epiphany 364 Priest and Sick-man 367 Two Pots 229 R   FAB Raven and Wol●…es 381 Raven and Swan 160 Rats that Eat Copper 451 Raven and Snake 180 Reason of State 482 River Fish and Sea Fish 251 River and Fountain 307 Rich Man would be no Richer 400 Rich Man and Poor 468 Rich Man and Servant 282 S   FAB Satyr and Fire 471 Sea-men Praying to Saints 272 Sheep and Crow 77 Sheep-biter Hang'd 330 Sheep Quarrels with the Shepherd 335 Shepherd turn'd Merchant 99 Shepherd and Wolves Whelp 155 Shepherd and Sheep 199 Shepherd Wolfe and Fox 443 Shipwrack of Simonides 476 Smith and his Dog 117 Snake and File 44 Snake to Iupiter 285 Snake and Crab. 154 Soldiers and Two Horses 292 Son Singing at 's Mother's Funeral 311 Sow and Dog 152 Sow and Bitch 153 Two Soldiers go Halves 429 The Incorrigible Son 329 Spider and Goat 388 Spaniel and Sow 293 Stag Drinking 43 Stag and Oxen. 53 Stag and Horse 57 Stag with One Eye 147 Stag and Lyon 148 Sun and Wind. 223 Swallow and Other Birds 18 Swallow and Spider 258 Swan and Stork 267 Swan and Goose. 158 Swallow and Crow 161 T.   FAB Taylor and his Wife 354 A Tavern Bill paid with a Song 365 Thrush taken with Birdlime 49 Thrush and Swallow 65 Thunny and Dolphin 90 Thieves that Stole a Cock. 177 Tree and Wedge 47 Old Tree Transplanted 82 Trees Streight and Crooked 266 Travellers and a Bag of Money 164 Travellers by the Sea-side 189 Two Travellers of Differing Humors 393 Two Travellers find and Oyster 411 A Bragging Traveller 85 Travellers Dreaming 481 Trumpeter taken Prisoner 67 Tyger and Fox 235 V.   FAB Usurers and Curryers 392 Vulturs Invitation 211 W.   FAB Wax and Brick 304 Wasps in a Honey-Pot 126 Wasps Patridges and Husbandman 137 Old Weazle and Mice 81 Wench parting with her Sweet-heart 269 A Creaking Wheel 339 The Inconsolable Widow 268 An Old Man gives over Whoring 326 Widow had a mind to Marry 283 Wife and Drunken Husband 157 Wolfe and Lamb. 3 Wolfe and Crane 8 Wolfe and Sow 22 Wolfe Kid and Goat 28 Wolfe and Fox 42 Wolves and Sheep League 45 Wolves and Dogs agree 394 Wolfe Lamb and Goat 60 Wolfe and Kid. 207 Wolfe and Procupine 320 Wolfe and Sheep-skin 328 Wolfe and Lyon 130 Wolfe and Kid. 174 Wolfe and Sheep 186 Wolfe turn'd Shepherd 395 Wolfe turns Religious 436 Wolfe and Fox 467 Wolfe and Hog 469 Wolfe and a Weak Young Man 341 A Trepanning Wolfe 499 A Woman and her Maids 209 An Old Woman and the Devil 282

Vanity got him the Envy of all his Companions who upon a Discovery of the Truth of the Case fell to Pluming of him by Consent and when Every Bird had taken his Own Feather the Silly Daw had Nothing left him to Cover his Nakedness The MORAL We steal from one Another all manner of Ways and to all manner of Purposes Wit as well as Feathers but where Pride and Beggery Meet people are sure to be made Ridiculous in the Conclusion REFLEXION EVERY thing is Best and Every Man Happiest in the State and Condition wherein Nature has Plac'd them But if Daws will be setting up for Peacocks or Asses for Lions they must Expect and Content themselves to be Laugh'd at for their Pains The Allusion of the Daw here and his Borrow'd Feathers Extends to All sorts of Impostors Vain Pretenders and Romancers in Feats of Arms State Love or the Like It Points also at the Empty Affectation of Wit and Understanding in which case it fares as it does with men that set up for Quality Birth and Bravery upon the Credit of a Gay Out-side for Authors may be Cozen'd upon the Tick as well as Taylors Nay we have seen some even of our First Rate Writers that have been Better at Disguising other Peoples Works than Furnishing any thing of their Own That is to say upon the taking of them to pieces the Stuff and Trimming is found to be Wholly Stol'n and New-Fourbish'd and Nothing in short that they can Assume to Themselves but the Needle and Thread that Tackt the Composition together Now when these Plagiaries come to be Stript of their Borrow'd or Pilser'd Ornaments rhere's the Daw in the Fable truly Moraliz'd FAB XXXIV An Ant and a Fly THere happen'd a Warm Dispute betwixt an Ant and a Fly Why Where 's the Honour or the Pleasure in the World says the Fly that I have not My Part in Are not All Temples and Palaces Open to me Am not I the Taster to Gods and Princes in All their Sacrifices and Entertainments Am I not serv'd in Gold and Silver And is not my Meat and Drink still of the Best And all This without either Mony or Pains I Trample upon Crowns and Kiss what Ladies Lips I please And what have You now to Pretend to all this While Why says the Ant You Value Your self upon the Access You have to the Altars of the Gods the Cabinets of Princes and to All Publick Feasts and Collations And what 's all This but the Access of an Intruder not of a Guest For People are so far from Liking Your Company that they Kill ye as fast as they can Catch ye You 're a Plague to 'em Wherever You Come Your very Breath has Maggots in 't and for the Kisse you Brag of what is it but the Perfume of the Last Dunghil you Touch'd upon once Remov'd For My Part I live upon what 's my Own and Work Honestly in the Summer to Maintain my self in the Winter Whereas the whole Course of Your Scandalous Life is only Cheating or Sharping one Half of the Year and Starving the Other The MORAL Here 's An Emblem of Industry and Luxury set forth at large with the Sober Advantages and the Scandalous Excesses of the One and of the Other REFLEXION THIS Fable Marks out to us the Difference betwixt the Empty Vanity of Ostentation and the Substantial Ornaments of Virtue It shews that the Happiness of Life does not lie so much in the Enjoying of small Advantages as in living free from Great Inconveniences and that an Honest Mediocrity is Best The Fly stands up for the Pride the Luxury and the Ambition of Courts in the preference of Palaces to Caves and Private Retreats The Ant contents her self with the Virtue of Sobriety Retirement and Moderation She lives upon her Own Honestly Gotten and Possess'd without either Envy or Violence Whereas the Fly is an Intruder and a Common Smell-Feast that Spunges upon Other peoples Trenchers A Man can hardly fancy to himself a Truer Image of a Plain Honest Country Simplicity then the Ants part of the Dialogue in This Fable She takes pains for What she Eats Wrongs No body and so Creates No Enemies She wants Nothing and she Boasts of Nothing Lives Contented with her Own and Enjoys all with a Good Conscience This Emblem recommends to us the Blessings of a Virtuous Privacy according to the just Measures of Right Nature and in Few Words comprizes the Sum of a Happy State The Fly on the Contrary leads a Lazy Voluptuous Scandalous Sharking Life Hateful wherever she comes and in Perpetual Fears and Dangers She flutters 't is true from place to place from Feast to Feast Brags of her Interest at Court and of Ladies Favours And what 's This Miserable Insect at last but the very Picture of one of our Ordinary Trencher-Squires that spend their time in Hopping from One Great man's Table to Anothers only to Pick up Scraps and Intelligence and to Spoil Good Company I cannot see one of These Officious Humble Companions Skipping up and down from Levée to Levée and making himself Necessary wherever he thinks fit to be Troublesome I cannot hear a Finical Fop Romancing how the King took him aside at such a time What the Queen said to him at Another How many Ladies fell out who should have him to her self What Discourse pass'd Where he is to Eat to morrow What Company What Dishes What Wine Who Loves Who and what Intrigues are afoot in Church and State c. Without More Words I cannot Hear the Chat or see the Vanity of these Pragmatical Empty Busie-Bodies without thinking of the Fly in the Fable And This Application was the True End of Writing it FAB XXXV A Frog and an Oxe AS a Huge Over-grown Oxe was Grazing in a Meadow an Old Envious Frog that stood Gaping at him hard by call'd out to her Little Ones to take Notice of the Bulk of That Monstrous Beast and see says she if I don't make my self now the Bigger of the Two So she Strain'd Once and Twice and went still swelling on and on till in the Conclusion she Forc'd her self and Burst The MORAL Betwixt Pride Envy and Ambition men fancy Themselves to be Bigger than they are and Other People to be Less And This Tumour Swells it self at last 'till it makes All Fly REFLEXION THIS Fancy is a Lash upon Those that set up to Live above their Quality and Fortune and pretend to spend Penny for Penny with men of Twenty times their Estate and therefore must needs Burst in the Conclusion But Pride and Ambition Pushes men forward not only to Extravagances but Impossibilities though to the Certain Undoing of the Weaker and the Meaner When they come to Vie Power and Expence with Those that are too High and too many for them Men that would be Bigger than God has made them must e'en Expect to fall to Nothing This Affectation strikes upon All the Weaknesses that Pride Envy

find your Grandfather was Whipt there by That Name We have in fine a World of Boasting Mules among us that don't care for being Minded of their Braying Fathers But 't is the Fate of These Vain-Glorious Fops to be Thus Met withall and your Counterfeit Men of Honor seldom come off Better Wherefore let every Man look well about him before he Boasts of his Pedigree to see if he had not an Asse to his Father FAB CXIX A Dog and a Wolfe A Wolfe took a Dog napping at his Masters Door and when he was just about to Worry him the Poor Creature begg'd hard only for a Reprieve Alas says he I 'm as Lean at present as Carryon but we have a Wedding at our House within these Two or Three Days that will Plump me up you shall see with Good Cheare Pray have but Patience 'till Then and when I 'm in a Little Better Case Ill throw my self in the very Mouth of ye The Wolfe took his Word and so let him go but passing some Few Days after by the same House again he spy'd the Dog in the Hall and bad him Remember his Promise Heark ye my Friend says the Dog Whenever you Catch me Asleep again on the Wrong side of the Door never Trouble your Head to Wait for a Wedding The MORAL Experience Works upon Many Brutes more then upon Some Men. They are not to be Gull'd twice with the same Trick And at the Worst a Bad Shift is Better than None REFLEXION 'T is good to Provide against All Chances both Sleeping and Waking for a Man cannot be too Circumspect upon Condition on the other hand that his Caution do not make him Over-sollicitous Past Dangers make us Wiser for the Future As the Dog after he had been snapt at the Door had the Wit to lye in the Hall which tells us that a Wise Body is not to be Caught Twice by the same Snare and Trick His Promise to the Wolf was a kind of a Dog-Case of Conscience and the Wolfe play'd the Fool in Taking his Word for That which he was oblig'd not to Perform FAB CXX A Lyon and a Bull. IN the Days of Yore when Bulls liv'd upon Mutton there was a Lyon had a Design upon a Mighty Bull and gave him a very Civil Invitation to come and Sup with him for says he I have gotten a Sheep and you must needs take Part on 't The Bull Promis'd and Went but so soon as ever he saw what a Clutter there was with Huge Over-grown Pots Pans and Spits away he scowr'd Immediately The Lyon presently call'd after him and Ask'd him Whither in such Hast Oh says the Bull 't is High Time for me to be Jogging when I see such Preparation for This Provision looks as if you were to have a Bull for your Supper rather then a Mutton The MORAL When a Man has both an Interest and an Inclination to Betray us there 's No Trusting him REFLEXION THERE 's No Trusting to the Fair Words and Countenances of Bloudy Men He 's sure to be Ruin'd that lays himself at the Mercy of Those that Live upon the Spoyle Their very Complements are Snares as the Lyons Invitation of the Bull to Sup with him was but the Cover of a Design he had to Supp upon the Bull himself FAB CXXI A Lyon in Love A Lyon fell in Love with a Country Lass and desir'd her Father's Consent to have her in Marriage The Answer he gave was Churlish enough He 'd never Agree to 't he say'd upon any Terms to Marry his Daughter to a Beast The Lyon gave him a Sowr Look upon 't which brought the Bumkin upon Second Thoughts to strike up a Bargain with him upon these Conditions that his Teeth should be Drawn and his Nailes Par'd for Those were Things he say'd that the Foolish Girle was Terribly afraid of The Lyon sends for a Surgeon immediately to do the Work as what will not Love make a Body do And so soon as ever the Operation was Over he goes and Challenges the Father upon his Promise The Countryman seeing the Lyon Disarm'd Pluck'd up a Good Heart and with a Swindging Cudgel so Order'd the Matter that he broke off the Match The MORAL An Extravagant Love Consults neither Life Fortune nor Reputation but Sacrifices All that can be Dear to a Man of Sense and Honor to the Transports of an Inconsiderate Passion REFLEXION THIS Fable will look well enough in the Moral how Fantastical soever it may appear at first Blush in the Lines and Traces of it Here 's a Beast in Love with a Virgin which is but a Reverse of the Preposterous Passions we meet with Frequently in the World when Reasonable Creatures of Both Sexes fall in love with Those that in the Allusion may allmost without a Figure pass for Beasts There 's Nothing so Fierce or so Savage but Love will Soften it Nothing so Generous but it will Debauche it Nothing so sharp sighted in Other Matters but it throws a Mist before the Eyes on 't It puts the Philosopher beside his Latin and to summ up All in a Little where This Passion Domineers neither Honour nor Virtue is able to stand before it The Lyon's Parting with his Teeth and his Clawes in a Complement to his New Mistress is no more then what we see Every Day Exemplify'd in the case of making over Estates and Joyntures with the Malice Prepense all this While of holding their Noses to the Grindstone and with the Girles Father here of Jilting them at last FAB CXXII A Lyoness and a Fox A Numerous Issue passes in the World for a Blessing and This Consideration made a Fox cast it in the Teeth of a Lyoness that she brought forth but One Whelp at a time Very Right says the Other but then That One is a Lyon The MORAL 'T is a Common Thing to Value things more by the Number then by the Excellency of them REFLEXION THERE are more Fools in the World then Wise Men and more Knaves then Honest Men so that it is not Number but Excellency that Inhaunces the Value of Any thing The most copious Writers are commonly the Arrantest Scriblers And so in much Talking the Tongue is apt to run before the Wit In Many Words there is Folly but a Word in Season is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver Says the Oracle of Truth it self And we have it from the same Authority that our very Prayers when they are Loud and Long are in the Sight of Heaven no better then so much Babbling and that they have More in them of Hypocrisy and Ostentation then of Affection and Judgment The Great Creator of the Universe whose single FIAT was sufficient to have made Ten Thousand Worlds in the Twinkling of an Eye Allowed himself Six Dayes yet for the Finishing of his Purpose Paus'd upon Every Days Work Consider'd of it Review'd it and Pronounc'd it Good and so Proceeded Right Reason Moves in some Proportion by

Images of Truth Here 's a Good Man and his Penitent Preaching upon Two several Texts The Holy Father Enforces the Necessity of the Soldier 's Repentance from the Wicked Course of Life that he Leads and the Trade that he drives The Soldier on the Other hand is willing to be Converted for the Times are Dead he says and there 's Neither Pay nor Plunder to be got The World has abundance of These Proselytes that when they can be no longer Wicked to Advantage take up an Outward Change of Profession and pass presently for Babes of Grace without the Least Symptoms all this while of any Inward Change of Mind This was the Case of One of our Modern Confessors and Martyrs who took a Formal Leave of Iesus Christ and told his Ghostly Father that he was now fully Resolv'd not to Starve for his Religion Now there are Millions and Millions in the World of This Man's Kidney that have the Wit yet to keep their Tongues betwixt their Teeth and to take up the same Resolution without Noise How many Instances of the Power of Pay and Pillage does Every day Produce in all manner of Dealings and Professions For Religigion and Property still March Hand in Hand and Men will do Tricks like Dogs for Crusts and Change their Masters both Heavenly and Earthly for Better Wages Where 's That Law or Text that has not been Over-rul'd some time or other and Distorted by a False Gloss to make the Application Profitable and Easy to the Good People How often have we heard as Arrant Jangling in the Pulpits as ever we did in tho Steeples And Professors Ringing as Awk as the Bells to give notice of the Conflagration which They Themselves were Raising for we have found it to our Cost that the Multitude will sooner Kindle with a Pernicious Doctrine then with a Pudding-Lane Fire-Ball 'T is not Conscience but Interest that Governs the World and the Incomparable Hudibras has hit the Point to a Hair What 's Orthodox and True Believing Against a Conscience A Good Living What makes All Doctrines Plain and Clear About Two Hundred Pound a Year And That which was Prov'd True Before Prove False again Two Hundred More What makes the Breaking of all Oaths A Holy Duty Food and Cloaths This it is in sine that makes the Devil of a Saint and a Saint of a Devil for your Holy Apostate is the Blackest of Hypocrites The Soldier turns Religious and he shall do more Mischief in That Shape then ever he did in the Other For a Corrupted Zeal draws more Blood then a Mercenary Malice FAB CCCII A Husband and Wife twice Marry'd THere happen'd a Match betwixt a Widower and a Widow The Woman would be perpetually Twitting of her second Husband what a Man her First was and her Husband did not forget the Ringing of it in her Ears as often what an Admirable Woman he had to his First Wife As the Woman was One day upon the Peevish Pin a Poor Body comes to the Door while the Froward Fit was upon her to beg a Charity Come in Poor Man says the Woman Here 's e'en the Leg of a Capon for thee to pray for the Soul of my First Husband Nay faith says the Husband and when thy Hand is In e'en take the Body and the Rest on 't to pray for the Soul of My First Wife This was Their way of Teizing One Another and of Starving the Living to the Honour of the Dead for they had but That One Capon betwixt them to Supper The MORAL Sauce for a Goose is Sauce for a Gander There 's no Contending with the Laws of God and Man Especially against Those that have Power and Right on their Sides REFLEXION WE may learn from This Fable that it is Common Duty and Discretion for Men and their Wives when they are once Hamper'd to make the Best of a Doubtful Game for they are One to All Manner of Purposes by which it is Possible for Two Persons to be United Their Interest is One and the same and there 's No Touching the Peace or the Honour of the One without Wounding That of the Other but if there happens to be Any Absolute Necessity of Jangling One of the Civillest ways of Reproach is That here before us and it is but according to the Ordinary Guise and Freak of the World when any thing comes Cross betwixt the Second Husband and Wife to be still Celebrating the Memory of the Former My First Husband Heaven Rest his Soul and My First Wife they Cry was So and So and wou'd have done This and That The Two Main Topiques to Chop Logick upon in These Domestique Disagreements are commonly the Upbraiding One Another with what I Was and what I Might have been and what a Match I might have had with a Pox never considering what they Are and that what they Are they Must be which is the Only Point 'T is Forty to One that Controversies will Arise one time or Other in That State of Life when it will be the Husbands Part upon the Matter of Dignity Preference and Commission to Moderate Matters both by his Authority and his Prudence Which is but Consonant to Equity and Right Nature Wherefore the Woman is Worse then Frantick that upon These Disputes will be trying Conclusions with her Husband for a Better or a Worse If he Truckles she makes him a Coxcomb If he keeps his Ground she shews her self to be One so that she lays all at stake upon the Contest that a Sober Woman has to Lose It is much better to give Way betimes to the Stronger even upon the Matter of Prudence as well as of Respect then it would be to Contend at first and then either to Cross the Cudgells or to be 〈◊〉 in the Conclusion The Man and the Woman here never Consider'd that they gave away their Own Meat and both Robb'd and Discredited One Another in the Contest FAB CCCIII. A Lyon and a Mouse A Lyon that found himself Hamper'd in a Net call'd to a Mouse that was passing by to help him out of the Snare and he 'd never forget the Kindness he said The Mouse Gnaw'd the Threads to pieces and when he had set the Lyon at Liberty desir'd him in Requital to give him his Daughter The Lyon was too Generous to Deny him Any thing but most Unluckily as the New Bride was just about to Step into the Marriage Bed she happen'd to set her Foot upon her Husband at Unawares and Crush'd him to Death The MORAL The Folly of an Inconsiderate Love The Force of Gratitude and Good Nature and the Misery that Accompanies Unequal Matches REFLEXION ALL Matches Friendships and Societies are Dangerous and Inconvenient where the Contractors are Not Equals And the Mouse under the Paw of the Lyon does well enough set forth the Danger of such a Marriage FAB CCCIV. Wax and Brick THere was a Question started once about Wax and Brick why the One should be so