. Fables of Aesop and others. PPLICATION. The lowest condition of Ufe, with freedom attending it, is bet-ter than the most exalted station under restraint. ^Esop andPhasdrus who had both felt the bitter effects of slavery, thoughthe latter of them had the good fortune to have one of themildest princes that ever was, for his master, cannot forbear ta-king all opportunities to express their great abhorrence of servi-tude, and their passion for liberty, upon any terms , a state of slavery, with whatever seeming grandeur andhappiness it may be attended, is yet so precarious a thin
. Fables of Aesop and others. PPLICATION. The lowest condition of Ufe, with freedom attending it, is bet-ter than the most exalted station under restraint. ^Esop andPhasdrus who had both felt the bitter effects of slavery, thoughthe latter of them had the good fortune to have one of themildest princes that ever was, for his master, cannot forbear ta-king all opportunities to express their great abhorrence of servi-tude, and their passion for liberty, upon any terms , a state of slavery, with whatever seeming grandeur andhappiness it may be attended, is yet so precarious a thing, thathe must want sense, honour, courage, and all manner of virtue,who can endure to prefer it in his choice. A man who has solittle honour as to bear to be a slave, when it is in his power toprevent or redress it, would make no scruple to cut the throutsof his fellow-creatures, or do any wickedness that the wantonunbridled will of his tyrannical master could suggest. ^SOPS FABLES. 67 FAB. XX. The Lamb brovght up by a A Wolf meeting a Lamb one day, in company witha Goat, Child, says he, you are mistaken; this is noneof your mother, she is yonder, (pointing to a flock ofsheep at a distance.) It may be so, says the Lamb;the person that happened to conceive me, and after-wards bore me a few months in her belly because shecould not help it, and then dropt me she did not carewhere, and left me to the wide world, is, I suppose,what you call my mother; but I look upon this goodcharitable Goat as such, that took compassion on mein my poor, helpless, destitute condition, and gave meBUck; sparing it out of the mouths of her own kids,rather than 1 should want it. But sure, says he, youhave a greater regard for her that gave you life thanfor any body else. She gave me life! I deny that.—She that could not so much as tell whether I shouldbe black or white, had a great hand in giving me life,to be suie! But supposing it were so, I am mightily 58 yKSOPy FABLES. obliged to her, trul
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