. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . make the same use of theirreason that other people do; but, like the jaun-diced eye, view eveiy thing in that false light inwhich dieir distemper and debauchery representit. The Young Man in the fable gives us a prettyexample of this; he sees a Swallow in the midstof winter, and instead of being sui-prised at it, asa very irregular and extraordinary thing, concludesfrom thence that it is summer, as if he had neverthought before about the season. Well, the resultof this wise conclusion is of a piece with the con-clus
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . make the same use of theirreason that other people do; but, like the jaun-diced eye, view eveiy thing in that false light inwhich dieir distemper and debauchery representit. The Young Man in the fable gives us a prettyexample of this; he sees a Swallow in the midstof winter, and instead of being sui-prised at it, asa very irregular and extraordinary thing, concludesfrom thence that it is summer, as if he had neverthought before about the season. Well, the resultof this wise conclusion is of a piece with the con-clusion itself; if it is summer, he shall not want somany clothes, therefore he sells them: for what.—More money to squander away; as if (had hisobservation been just) summer would have lastedall the year round. But the true result and con-clusion of all this is—when both his money andclothes are irrecoverably gone, he comes to hisright senses; is ready to perish with hungejr, tostarve with cold, and to tear his own flesh withremorse and vexation at his former stupidity. t4. THE MAN AND HIS GOOSE. A CERTAIN Man had a Goose, which laidhim a golden egg every day. But, not content-ed with this, which rather increased than abatedhis avarice, he was resolved to kill the Goose,and cut up her belly, that so he might come atthe inexhaustible treasure which he fancied shehad within her. He did so ; and, to his greatsorrow and disappointment, found nothing. APPLICATION. They who are of such craving impatienttempers, that they cannot live contented whenfortune has blessed them with a constant andcontinued sufficiency, deserve even to be de-prived of what they have. And this has beenthe case of many ambitious and covetous men,who, by making an essay to grow very rich atonce, have missed what they aimed at, and lostwhat they had before. But this conies so near FABLE XCVI. 199 the sense of the forty-seventh fable, that thesame application may very well serve for any thing further ca
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