. Fables of Aesop and others. ur of the latter, without the least hesita-tion, as knowing upon what a steady and safe security it isestablished. For the higher a man is exalted, the fairer markhe gives, and the more unlikely he is to escape a storm. What little foundation therefore has the greatest favourite tofortune, to behave himself with insolence to those below him;whose circumstances, though he is so elated with pride, as todespise them, are, in the eye of every prudent man, more eligi-ble than his owti, and such as he himself, when the day of ac-count comes, will wish he had never excee
. Fables of Aesop and others. ur of the latter, without the least hesita-tion, as knowing upon what a steady and safe security it isestablished. For the higher a man is exalted, the fairer markhe gives, and the more unlikely he is to escape a storm. What little foundation therefore has the greatest favourite tofortune, to behave himself with insolence to those below him;whose circumstances, though he is so elated with pride, as todespise them, are, in the eye of every prudent man, more eligi-ble than his owti, and such as he himself, when the day of ac-count comes, will wish he had never exceeded. For, as theriches which many over-grown great ones call the goods of for-tune, are seldom any other than the goods of the public, whichthey have impudently, and feloniously taken, so public justicegenerally overtakes them in the end; and whatever their lifemay have been, their death is as ignominious and unpitiod asthat of the meanest and most obscure thief. o 2 {62 iESOPS FABLES. FAB. LXXXIV. The Bull and the Gcat. ^»l. The Bull being pursued by the Lion, made towardsa cave, in which he designed to secure himself; butwas opposed just at the entrance by a Goat, who hadgrt possession before him, and threatening a kind ofdefiance with his horns, seemed resolved to disputethe pass with him. The Bull, who though he had notime to lose in a contest of this nature, immediatelymade offagam; but told the Goat, that it was not forfear of him or his defiances: for, says he, if the Lionwas not so near, I would soon make you know the dif-ference between a Bull and a Goat. THE APPLICATION. It is very inhuman to deny succour and comfort to peoplein tribulation; but to insult them, and add to the weight of theirmisfortune, is something superlatively brutish and cruel. Thereis however, in the world, a sort of wretches of this vile temper,that wait for an opportunity of aggravating their neighboursatHiction, and defer the execution of their evil inclinations they can do it to the be
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