. Fables of Aesop and others. case mayescape scot free, yet he is sure to pay for id in his reputation: itbeing impossible we should think him a man of honor, who en-deavours to wound us from the advantage of the place in whichhe happens to be, and refuse to engage us upon equal •210 ^SOPS FABLES. Whenever therefore we are attacked by one whom the ctim-pany we are in, or some other circumstance, makes it improperor impracticable for us to come at, let us wisely curb our passionsof resentment, by considering that it is not the silly person whospeaks, but some situation by which he is
. Fables of Aesop and others. case mayescape scot free, yet he is sure to pay for id in his reputation: itbeing impossible we should think him a man of honor, who en-deavours to wound us from the advantage of the place in whichhe happens to be, and refuse to engage us upon equal •210 ^SOPS FABLES. Whenever therefore we are attacked by one whom the ctim-pany we are in, or some other circumstance, makes it improperor impracticable for us to come at, let us wisely curb our passionsof resentment, by considering that it is not the silly person whospeaks, but some situation by which he is secured, that uttersthe reproach against us. The same reflection may serve alsoto divert, instead of exasperating us, at the impotent malice ofthose poor spirits, who, at the same time that they take the advantage of a place to brandish their infamous tongue against us,show how much they fear us, and that they durst not do it, unlessthey knew themselves to be out of the reach of our resentment. FAB. CXV. The Judicious A Lion having taken a young Bullock, stood over,and was just going to devour it, when a thief stept in,and cried halves with him. No, friend, says the lion,you are too apt to take what is not your due, andtherefore I shall have nothing to say to you. By chancea poor honest traveller happened to come that way,and seeing the lion, modestly and timorously with-drew, intending to go another way. Upon which, thegenerous beast, with a courteous, affable behaviour, iESOPS FABLES. 211 desired him to come forward, and partake willi himin that, to which his modesty and humility had givenhim so good a title. Then dividing the prey into twoequal parts, and feasting himself upon one of them,he retired into the woods, and left the place clear forthe honest man to come in and take his share. THE APPLICATION. There is no one but will readily allow this behaviour of theLion to have been commendable and just; notwithstandingwhich, greediness and importunity never fail to t
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