Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CIII
Fab. CIII.
A Fox and a Crocodile.
THERE happen’d a Contest betwixt a Fox and a Crocodile, upon the Point of Bloud and Extraction. The Crocodile Amplifyd Wonderfully upon his Family, for the Credit of his Ancestors. Friend (says the Fox, smiling upon’t) there will need no Herald to Prove your Gentility; for you carry the Marks of Your Original in Your very Skin.
The MORAL.
Great Boasters and Lyars have the Fortune still some way or other to Disprove themselves.
REFLEXION.
There are fome Falsities so Bold and Notorious, that they carry their Contradictions in the very Reason and Presumption of the Matter, without any other Evidence.