Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCVII
Fab. CCVII.
A Wolfe and a Kid.
AS a Wolfe was passing by a Poor Country Cottage, a Kid spy’d him through a Peeping-Hole in the Door; and sent a Hundred Curses along with him. Sirrah (says the Wolfe) if had ye out of your Castle, I'd make ye give Better Language.
The MORAL.
REFLEXION.
THE Advantages of Time and Place are enough to make a Poultron Valiant. There's Nothing so Couragious as a Coward if you put him out of Danger. This way of Brawl and Clamour, is so Arrant a Mark of a Dastardly Wretch, that he does as good as Call himself so that Uses it. The Kid behind the Door has the Priviledge of a Lord Mayors Fool. He's under Protection: he One is Scurrilous, and the Other Saucy; and yet These are the Two Qualities that pass but too frequently in the ord for Wit and Valour.