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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

Needy What Wise Man I say upon these Terms would not rather take up his Lodging with the Spider in the Fable here then with the Gout The MORAL An Industrious Poverty in a Cell with Quiet Thoughts and Sound Sleeps is infinitely to be Prefer'd before a Lazy Life of Pomp and Pleasure For Courts are but Nurseries of Diseases and Cares REFLEXION ONE may be very Uneasie with a Plentiful Fortune and as Happy in a Mean Condition for 't is the Mind that makes us either the one or the other A Luxurious Court is the Nursery of Diseases it Breeds 'em it Encourages Nourishes and Entertains them A Plain an Honest and a Temperate Industry contents it self with a little and who would not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock without either Cares in his Head or Crudities in his Stomach then lye Carking upon a Bed of State with the Qualms and Twinges that accompany Surfeits and Excess The End of the Fables in the Common School-Book A SUPPLEMENT OF FABLES OUT OF Phaedrus Avienus Camerarius Neveletus Apththonius Gabrias Babrias Abstemius Alciatus Boccalini Baudoin De la Fontaine Aesope en Belle Humeur Meslier c. FAB CCCLXXXIV A Lamb a Wolf and a Goat A Wolf overheard a Lamb Bleating among the Goats D' ye hear Little One says the Wolf if it be your Dam you want she 's yonder in the Field Ay says the Lamb but I am not looking for her that was my Mother for her Own sake but for her that Nurses me up and Suckles me out of Pure Charity and Good Nature Can any thing be Dearer to you says the Wolf then she that brought you forth Very Right says the Lamb and without knowing or caring what she did And pray what did she bring me forth for too but to Ease her self of a Burden and to deliver me out of her own Belly into the Hands of the Butcher I am more Beholden to her that took Pity of me when I was in the VVorld already then to her that brought me into 't I know not how 'T is Charity not Nature or Necessity that does the Office of a Tender Mother The MORAL There 's a difference betwixt Reverence and Affection the one goes to the Character and the other to the Person and so distinguishes Duty from Inclination Our Mothers brought us into the World a Stranger takes us up and Preserves us in 't So that here 's both a Friend and a Parent in the case and the Obligation of the one must not destroy the Respect I owe to the other nor the Respect the Obligation And none but an Enemy will advise us to quit either REFLEXION MEN are not so sensible of Laws and Duty as they are of Kindness and Good Nature beside that the Wolf's Pretence of Care for the Poor Lamb was a Charity that began at Home There is an Affection of Nature and that which we call a Filial Duty and there is an Affection that is grounded upon the Moral Considerations of Benevolence and Friendship In the one we lye under an Obligation of Reverence and Respect to a Parent be the Father or Mother what they will in the other we pay a Regard to Civil Acknowledgments and Virtue Nature and the Principles of Nature must be kept Sacred but Men cannot Love to what degree or whom or what they please So that in many Cases we pay a Veneration upon One Score and an Affection upon Another and this Fable does very well distinguish the Gratitude from the Respect The Wolves Preaching to the Lamb is no Ill Emblem of a Scandalous Minister that Discredits a very Good Sermon with an Ill Life and gives the Lye to his Doctrin in his Practice The Wolf took the same Care of the Lamb that the Keepers of our Liberties in former days did of the Innocent People of England They pretended to put us out of Harms way from others that they might Devour us themselves FAB CCCLXXXV Iupiter's Altar Robb'd A Thief Kindled his Torch at Iupiter's Altar and then Robb'd the Temple by the Light on 't As he was Packing away with his Sacrilegious Burden a Voice either of Heaven or of Conscience Pursu'd him The Time will come says that Voice when this Impious Villany of Yours shall cost ye Dear not for the Value of what you have Stoll'n but for the Contempt of Heaven and Religion that you ought to have a Veneration for Iupiter has taken care however to prevent these Insolent Affronts for the Time to come by an Express Prohibition of any Communication for the future betwixt the Fire upon his Altars and that of Common Use. The MORAL Nothing more Familiar then to cover Sacrilege Murder Treason c. with a Text. And we are also to learn from hence that we have no greater Enemies many times then those we have Nurs'd and Bred up and that Divine Vengeance comes sure at Last though it may be long first REFLEXION THE Kindling of a Torch at the Altar and then Robbing the Church by the Light on 't is an Old Invention contriv'd betwixt the World the Flesh and the Devil and will never be out of Date so long as we hold any Intelligence with the Common Enemies of Mankind There 's nothing cuts Religion like Religion it self Texts are put up against Texts and one Scripture made to fight against another insomuch that the Rule of Faith is Perverted into a Doctrin of Heresy and Schism and the Gospel of Peace is made a Voucher for Sedition and Rebellion There 's nothing commoner then to cite Holy Writ for the Overturning of Religion and to Over-rule one Divine Authority with another nay and when all is done to Justifie the Sacrilege of Seizing and Employing the Revenues of the Church to Prophane Uses And whence comes this Confusion and Self-Contradiction all this while but that the Manage of Holy Matters falls many times into the Hands of Men of more Polite Curiosity and Skill then Evangelical Zeal and Affection The School-men have spun the Thread too fine and made Christianity look liker a Course of Philosophy then a System of Faith and Supernatural Revelation So that the Spirit of it Evaporates into Niceties and Exercises of the Brain and the Contention is not for Truth but Victory The whole Business in fine is sour'd into Altercation and Cavil but all must be Remitted to the Judgment of the Great Day when every Man shall receive according to his Works And Wo be then to the Church-Robbers that shall be found among them that serve at the Altar But 't is no New Thing for Men that call themselves Professors and Disciples to Sell and to Betray their Lord and Master For Men that wear the Livery of the Church and Eat the Bread on 't to offer Sacrilegious Violence to their Holy Mother And this is the case of Iupiter's Altar Robb'd by the Light of his own Torch When the House of God is Rifl'd and Dishonour'd by his own Domesticks that

runs better in the Humour then it does in the Moral It lays before us the Unprofitable Vanity of a False Worship and gives us to Understand that the more zealous we are in a Wrong Way the Worse An Idol is an Abomination in the sight both of God and of Good Men and yet we are so to Govern our Selves even in the Transports of That Abhorrence as still to Preserve a Reverence for Religion it self in the very Indignation we Express for the Corruptions of it So that the License of this Buffoon went a little too far perhaps for there must be No Playing with Things Sacred nor Jesting as we say with Edge Tools We have the Moral of this Abandon'd Libertine up and down the World in a Thousand Several Shapes All People that Worship for Fear Profit or some other By End fall More or Less within the Intendment of this Emblem It is a kind of a Conditional Devotion for Men to be Religious no longer then they can Save or Get by 't Put forth thy Hand now says the Devil to the Almighty in the Case of Iob and Touch All that he hath and he will Curse thee to thy Face This Good Man Lost All and for an Example of Patience and Resignation to Future Ages The Lord gave says he and the Lord hath Taken away Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Here was No Dashing of the Two Tables one against the Other for an Office or an Egg at Easter as the Fellow serv'd his Idol here The Whole Summe of the Moral is in short Comprized in the Old Saying He that serves God for Mony will serve the Devil for Better Wages FAB CVI. A Dog Invited to Supper A Gentleman Invited a Friend to Supper with him and the Gentleman's Dog was so well Bred as to Invite the Friends Dog to come for Company The Dog came at his Hour and into the Kitchin he went to see what Good Cheer was toward But as he was there Wagging his Tayle and Licking his Lips at the thought of what a Meale he was like to make on 't the Roguy Cook got Slyly behind him and Spoil'd the Jest. He took him up by the Tayle at Unawares and after a Turn or Two in the Air flung him out of the Window So soon as ever the Poor Devil had Recover'd the Squelch away he Scampers Bawling like Mad with I know not how many Prick-Ear'd Currs at the Heels of him to know how he lik'd his Wellcome Why truly says he they have given me as much Drink as my Skin will hold and it has made me so Light-Headed I could not find the Right Way out of the House again The MORAL Love Me Love my Dog says the old Proverb and there 's somewhat of Good Manners as well as of Good Nature in 't for there are certain Decencies of Respect due to the Servant for the Master's sake REFLEXION IT looks well among Friends when Masters and Servants are all of a piece The Dog invites his Guest and the Cook throws him out of the Window and in so doing the Man shew'd himself the Arranter Curr of the Two for it was against Hospitality and Good Manners so to do There is a Duty of Tenderness and Good Nature even toward Those Animals But when it came to the Worst at last the Dog had the Wit we see to make the Best of a Bad Game Though 't was an unmannerly and an Ill-Natur'd Frolick of the Cook all this while for the Ill Usage of a Servant is some sort of Affront to his Master FAB CVII An Eagle and a Man A Man took an Eagle Pelted her Wings and put her among his Hens Somebody came and bought This Eagle and presently New Feather'd her She made a Flight at a Hare Truss'd it and brought it to her Benefactor A Fox perceiving This came and gave the Man a piece of Good Councell Have a care says Reynard of putting too much Confidence in This Eagle for she 'll go neare one time or other else to take You for a Hare Upon This Advice the Man Plum'd the Eagle once again The MORAL Persons and Humours may be Iumbled and Disguis'd but Nature is like Quicksilver that will never be Kill'd REFLEXION BIRDS of Prey will be Birds of Prey still at what rate soever you Treate ' em So that there 's no Trusting of them For when they have no longer a Power to do Mischief the Will yet Remains Here 's a Forc'd Moral for a Forc'd Fable For the Fancy of it is against Nature and the Fiction does not consist with it self Now to My Thinking This Application of it lyes the Fairer of the Two i e. That the Gratitude of the Eagle in bringing the Hare to her Master may serve to shew us that the Wildest and Fiercest of Creatures may be Sweetn'd and Reclaim'd by Benefits FAB CVIII A Father and Sons A Countryman that liv'd Handsomly in the World Himself upon his Honest Labour and Industry was desirous his Sons should do so After Tim and being now upon his Death-Bed My Dear Children says he I reckon my self bound to tell you before I depart that there is a Considerable Treasure Hid in my Vineyard Wherefore pray be sure to Dig and search Narrowly for 't when I am gone The Father Dyes and the Sons fall immediately to Work upon the Vineyard They Turn'd it up over and over and not one Penny of Mony to be found there but the Profit of the Next Vintage Expounded the Riddle The MORAL Good Councell is the Best Legacy a Father can leave to a Child and it is still the Better when it is so wrapt up as to Beget a Curiosity as well as an Inclination to follow it REFLEXION THERE' 's No Wealth like That which comes by the Blessing of God upon Honest Labour and Warrantable Industry Here 's an Incitement to an Industrious Course of Life by a Consideration of the Profit the Innocence and the Virtue of such an Application There is one Great Comfort in Hand beside the Hope and Assurance of more to come The very Exercise procures us Health and Consequently All the Pleasures and Satisfactions that Attend it We have the Delight of Seeing and Reaping the Fruit of our own Labour and the Inward Joy of Contemplating the Benedictions of Another World that shall be superadded to the Advantages of This. Aesop very well understood that Naked Lessons and Precepts have Nothing the Force that Images and Parables have upon our Minds and Affections Beside that the very Study to Unriddle a Mystery furnishes the Memory with more Tokens to Remember it by A Tale in Emblem sinks Deeper where the Life and Spirit of it is Insinuated by a kind of Biass and Surprize It was a Touch of Art in the Father to Cover his Meaning in such a manner as to Create a Curiosity and an Earnest Desire in his Sons to find it out And it was also a Treble Advantage to them besides for there

Hurry whips up her Darling under her Arm and carries the Other a Pick-a-Pack upon her Shoulders In This Haste and Maze Down she comes and beats out her Favourites Brains against a Stone but That which she had at her Back came off Safe and Sound The MORAL Fondlings are Commonly Unfortunate REFLEXION PARTIALITY in a Parent is commonly Unlucky if not a little Unnatural for Fondlings are in danger to be made Fools by the very Error of their Education and we find it Experimentally that the Children that are least Cocker'd make the Best and Wisest Men. 'T is well to be Tender but to set the Heart too much upon any thing is what we cannot Justify either in Religion or in Reason I was Saying that Partiality was a little Unnatural too I do not mean a Partiality of Inclination for we cannot Command our Likings or our Aversions but I speak of a Partiality that shews it self in a Distinguishing Preference of One to the Other and therefore what Hankering Dispositions soever we may have That Fondness should not Ttansport us beyond the Bounds of a Discreet Affection And Other Circumstances apart we should no more be Kinder to One Child then to Another then we are Tender of One Eye more then of the Other for they are Both our Own Flesh and Bloud alike Children are Naturally Jealous and Envious and the Quenching of their Spirits so Early Hazzards the Damping of them for ever Beside that there is no such Fop in Fine as my Young Master that has the Honour to be a Fool of his Lady Mothers Making She Blows him up with a Conceit of Himself and there he Stops without ever Advancing One Step further In short she makes a Man of him at Sixteen and a Boy all the Days of his Life after And what is All This now but the True Moral of the Ape with her Brats here in the Fable The Cub that she carry'd at her Back had the Wit to Shift for it self but the Other that she Hugg'd as the Devil did the Witch Perish'd in her very Arms. FAB CCXLIX An Oxe and a Heifer A Wanton Heifer that had little Else to do then to Frisk up and down in a Meadow at Ease and Pleasure came up to a Working Oxe with a Thousand Reproaches in her Mouth Bless me says the Heifer what a Difference there is betwixt your Coat and Condition and Mine Why What a Gall'd Nasty Neck have we here Look ye Mines as Clean as a Penny and as smooth as Silk I warrant ye 'T is a Slavish Life to be Yoak'd thus and in Perpetual Labour What would you give to be as Free and as Easy now as I am The Oxe kept These Things in his Thought without One Word in Answer at present but seeing the Heifer taken up a While after for a Sacrifice Well Sister says he and have not you Frisk'd fair now when the Ease and Liberty you Valu'd your self upon has brought you to This End The MORAL 'T is No New Thing for Men of Liberty and Pleasure to make Sport with the Plain Honest Servants of their Prince and Country But Mark the End on 't and while the One Labours in his Duty with a Good Conscience the Other like a Beast is but Fatting up for the Shambles REFLEXION THERE was never any thing gotten by Sensuality and Sloth either in Matter of Profit or of Reputation whereas an Active Industrious Life carries not only Credit and Advantage but a Good Conscience also along with it The Lazy the Voluptuous the Proud and the Delicate are Struck at in This Fable Men that Set their Hearts only upon the Present without either Entring into the Reason or looking forward into the End of Things Little Dreaming that all this Pomp of Vanity Plenty and Pleasure is but a Fattening of them for the Slaughter 'T is the Case of Great and Rich Men in the World the very Advantages they Glory in are the Cause of their Ruine The Heifer that Valu'd it self upon a Smooth Coat and a Plump Habit of Body was taken up for a Sacrifice but the Oxe that was Despis'd for his Drudgery and his Raw-Bones went on with his Work still in the Way of a Safe and an Honest Labour FAB CCL A Dog and a Lyon WHat a Miserable Life dost thou lead says a Dog to a Lyon to run Starving up and down thus in Woods and Deserts without either Meat or Ease I am Fat and Fair you see and it Costs me neither Labour nor Pains Nay says the Lyon you have many a Good Bit no Doubt on 't but then like a Fool you subject your self to the Clogs and Chains that go along with it But for my Own Part let him serve that serve Can and serve Will I 'll Live and Die Free. The MORAL That Man deserves to be a Slave that Sacrifices his Liberty to his Appetite REFLEXION THE Moral of This is the Same with That of Dog and Wolfe Fab. 69. FAB CCLI A River-Fish and a Sea-Fish THere was a Large Over-grown Pike that had the Fortune to be Carry'd out to Sea by a Strong Current and he had there the Vanity to Value himself above All the Fish in the Ocean We 'l refer That says a Sturgeon to the Judgment of the Market and see which of the Two Yields the Better Price The MORAL Every Man has his Province Assign'd him and none but a Mad-man will pretend to Impose and to give Laws where he has Nothing to do REFLEXION THERE 's no Folly like That of Vain Glory nor any thing more Ridiculous then for a Vain Man to be still Boasting of Himself For 't is against All Law and Equity for a Body to be admitted a Judge in ones Own Case A second Doctrine may be This and we find it True by Experience that Money Governs the World and that the Market Price is the Measure of the Worth of Men as well as of Fishes As the Sturgeon left it to the Fish-monger to Determine the Controversy betwixt Him and the Pike FAB CCLII A Fox and a Leopard AS a Leopard was Valuing himself upon the Lustre of his Party-colour'd-Skin a Fox gave him a Jog and Whisper'd him that the Beauty of the Mind was an Excellence Infinitely to be Preferr'd above That of a Painted Out-side The MORAL A Good Understanding is a Blessing Infinitely beyond All External Beauties REFLEXION THERE are Degrees in Good Things There are Blessings of Fortune and Those are of the Lowest Rate The Next above Those Blessings are the Bodily Advantages of Strength Gracefulness and Health but the Superlative Blessings in fine are the Blessings of the Mind Fools 't is true may be allow'd to Brag of Foolish Things but the Leopard's Beauty without the Foxes Wit is no better then a Fop in a Gay Coat THE FABLES OF ABSTEMIUS c. FAB CCLIII Demades the Orator THIS Demades was a very Famous Orator and taking Notice as he was in the Middle of a

Word and presently fetch'd out a Handful as much as ever he could Gripe Why how now says One of the Blades Ye Confounded Son of a Whore Ha' ye no Conscience The MORAL 'T is a Notable Trade that many People drive in the World of pretending to make a Conscience of One Sin and taking out their Penn'orths in Another Some there are that Commute Swearing for Whoring as if the Forbearance of the One were a Dispensation for the Committing of T'other We have heard of Others too that have been strict Observers of the Lords Day and yet made no Scruple at all of Robbing the Lord's Altars But a Good Christian and an Honest Man must be All of a Piece and these Inequalities of Proceeding will never hold Water REFLEXION 'T IS just with Publick Thieves as 't is with Private A Pretended Necessity sets them both at Work and a Pretended Religion or Conscience brings them off when they have done This is no more then what we our selves have found within the Memory of Man to be Literally and Historically True when that which in those Days past for the Law of the Land was in Effect no other then the Law of the Road and the One had as Much and as Little to say for it self as the Other There are Political Bands of Robbers as well as the Iacks and the Toms that are Cry'd in Gazettes and they fall both of them under the Regulation of the same Mystery and Trade The Poor Man here that was Robb'd Himself was Charg'd Effectually with Robbing the Thieves upon a Suspicion that he had Reserv'd some small Pittance of his own Mony to his own Use which they accounted a Defrauding of the Publick Now we have seen this to be the Sense and Discipline of the State as well as of the Pad and 't is as Broad as 't is Long at last whether a Man be Undone by a Cabal of Sharpers in Committee of Safety or by a Troup of Canary Birds upon Newmarket Heath Nay and the Parallel runs upon All Four a little further too Can't you take the Gentlemans Mony Civilly says the Spark That is to say Cannot you play the Rogue Demurely as if Butter would not melt in your Mouth and pick an Honest Gentlemans Pocket with a Pater-Noster betwixt your Teeth Cannot you Plunder Sequester Decimate Draw Hang and Quarter in the Fear of the Lord but you must Blaspheme and Call Names Is it not enough that you are Discharg'd by the very Privilege of your Profession from the Bondage of Subjection and Obedience to Parents Natural or Civil Is it not enough that you may Kill Whore Steal Backbite Covet and make Bold in short with all the Commands of the Second Table but you must be Breaking in upon the Former Thus goes the World the Little Thieves Hang for 't while the Great Ones Set upon the Bench and there 's a Cloak of Conscience still thrown over both Pretensions to Cover and to Consecrate the Cheat. FAB CCCCXCIX The Trepanning Wolf THere 's a Story of a Man of Quality in Ireland that a little before the Troubles there had Wall'd in a piece of ground for a Park and left only One Passage into 't by a Gate with a Portcullis to 't The Rebellion brake out and put a stop to his Design The Place was Horribly Pester'd with Wolves and his People having taken one of 'em in a Pit-Fall Chain'd him up to a Tree in the Enclosure and then planted themselves in a Lodg over the Gate to see what would come on 't The Wolf in a very short time fell a Howling and was Answer'd by All his Brethren thereabouts that were within Hearing of it insomuch that the Hububb was Immediately put about from One Mountain to Another till a whole Herd of 'em were gotten together upon the 〈◊〉 and so Troup'd away into the Park They were no sooner in the Pound but down goes the Portcullis and away Scamper'd the VVolves to the Gate upon the Noise of the Fall on 't When they saw that there was no getting out again where they ●…ame in and that upon Hunting the whole Field over there was no Possibility of making an Escape they fell by Consent upon the Wolf that drew them In and Tore him all to Pieces The MORAL Any Man that has but Eyes in his Head and looks well about him will find this Exploit of the Wolves to be no more then the common Practice of Vindictive Flesh and Blood on the One Hand and the common Fate of Publick Incendiaries on the Other REFLEXION 'T IS with Men as 't is with Beasts in the Case of this Wolf We do naturally Hate the Instruments of our Ruin And it matters not much neither as to the Event of the thing whether it be by Chance or by Choice for it seldom succeeds better where the Advice or the Instigation of One Man draws on the Destruction of Many There 's a Great Difference 't is true betwixt the Works of Malice and those of Misadventure but the Mischief is still the same for he that 's Undone is equally Undone whether it be by a Spitefulness of Forethought or by the Folly of Oversight or Evil Counsel The Wolf at the Staks had no Design upon his Brethren in the Woods and the Wolves in the Wood had as little Design upon their Brother at the Stake but One was in Distress and call'd out for Help while the other Associated and came in to his Relief But after they were once In they were all Involv'd in the same Common Fate And when the Herd found themselves Hamper'd and that they could not gain their Ends they came to a Resolution One and All in a Generous Indignation to take their Revenge The Freak of the French Farce comes as Pat as is possible to the Earnest of this Moral The Plot of it was a Grammar-School the Master setting his Boys their Lessons and their Exercises and a Loobily Country Fellow putting in for a part among the Scholars Well says the Master I am just going out of Town for Four or Five Days wherefore Pray'e be sure ye be Good Boys till I come back again and so he took Horse and away He had no sooner turn'd his Back but there were they at it Helter Skelter throwing Books at one anothers Heads and Playing such Reaks as if Hell were broke Loose among ' em In this very Interim the Master Bolts in upon them and Surprizes them In short he inquires into the Riot and takes the whole School to Task One by One about the Occasion of this Uproar I 'd have been Quiet says One if it had not been for Him and I 'd ha' been Quiet says T'other if he 'd ha' let me Alone So that in fine all Pointing at the same Person the Poor Country Fellow was taken up and Lash'd upon the Stage and all the rest Forgiven FAB CCCCC A Miller and a Rat. A Miller took a Huge Over-grown Rat in his Meal Tub and there was He laying the Law to him about the Lewdness of his Life and Conversation and the Abominable Sin of Stealing but your Thieving says he is now come Home to ye and I shall e'n leave Honest Puss here to reckon with ye for all your Rogueries Alas Sir says the Poor Rat I make no Trade on 't and the Miserable Pittance that I take is only from Hand to Mouth and out of Pure Necessity to keep Life and Soul together As the Rat Pleaded Hunger on the One Hand the Miller threw the Matter of Conscience and Honesty in his Teeth on the Other and Preach'd to him upon the Topick of a Political Convenience in making such Pilfering Knaves Examples for the Publick Good Well Sir says the Rat once again but pray will you Consider for your own sake that this is your own Case and that You and I are both Corn Merchants and of the same Fraternity Nay and that for One Grain that I take you take a Thousand This is not Language cries the Miller in a Rage for an Honest Man to Bear but the best on 't is Sirrah Your Tongue 's no Slander So he turn'd the Cat Loose upon him to do that which we call in the World an Execution of Iustice. The MORAL 'T is a piece of Market Policy for People of a Trade to bear hard One upon another when it comes once to the Question betwixt a Couple of Knaves which is the Honester Man of the Two REFLEXION THERE are no Greater Atheists under the Sun then that sort of People th●…t Distinguishes it self from other Men by the Name of the Godly and the Ungodly Party No Arranter Hypocrites in Hell then those that told the Sons of Levi they took too much upon them but that the Congregation was Holy Every Man of 'em and the Lord was among them Divine Vengeance cut them off we see Flagranti Crimine for the Earth Open'd her Mouth and Swallow'd them up Them and their whole Party and they went down Alive into the Pit No People so Unmerciful to Poor Little Whores and Thieves as Rich Great Ones The Griping Usurer Inveighs against Extortion Church-Robbers against Sacrilege the most Insupportable of Tyrants Exclaim against the Exercise of Arbitrary Power and none so Fierce against the Sin of Rebellion as the most Execrable of Traytors Themselves Thus we find it in these Instances and the same Pharisaical Spirit runs through the whole Roll of our Darling Iniquities The Miller is brought in here Preaching against Stealing and it is upon the whole Matter an Unaccountable Truth that we do all Naturally pretend the Greatest Aversion to that Lewdness in Another which we most Indulge in our Selves This is it that we call Crying Whore First as if the Impudence of Out-facing the Wickedness were some sort of Attonement for the Scandal of it FINIS