Fab. LX.
A Wolfe, a Lamb, and a Goat.
AS a Lamb was following a Goat, Up comes a Wolfe, wheedling, to get him aſide, and make a Breakfaſt of him: Why what a Fool art thou, ſays the Wolfe; that mayſt have thy Belly full of Sweet Milk at Home, to leave thy Mother for a Naſty Stinking Goat! Well, ſays the Lamb, but my Mother has Plac'd me here for my Security; and you'd fain get me into a Corner, to Worry me. Pray'e, which of the Two am I to Truſt to Now?
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
This Fable Preaches both Obedience and Caution; the One as a Matter of Duty, the Other as a Point of Prudence. The Wolfe ſings directly the ſame Note here with the Common Seducers and Incendiaries, that we Meet with in the World. And to the ſame End too; for they are both Agreed upon't, that ſo ſoon as ever they ſhall have withdrawn the Lambs,or the People, from their Religion and Allegiance, and gotten them out of the Pale, and Protection of their Parents and Governours, they'l make a Prey of 'em Themſelves. What's the Wheedling of the Lamb out of the Station where Authority had Plac'd him, to go home again for a Belly full of Sweet Milk; but a State-Trick of Inveigling the Multitude into a Fools-Paradiſe, without Underſtanding One word of the Matter in Queſtion! But ſome Lambs are Wiſer and Honeſter then ſome Men: And This very Lamb's Anſwer might have become the Mouth of a Good Chriſtian and a Good Subect. For a Concluſion; The Wolves Preaching to the Sheep, and the Foxes Preaching to the Geeſe, hold forth the ſame Moral.
Fab. LXI.
A Cat and Venus.
A Young Fellow that was Paſſionately in Love with a Cat, made it his Humble Suit to Venus to turn Puſs into a Woman. The Transformation was Wrought in the Twinkling of an Eye, and Out ſhe comes, a Very Buckſome Laſs. The Doting Sottook
