. Fables of Aesop and others. of it, be-gan to scour off as fast as they could; when the Lion,who was posted at a proper avenue, seized and de-voured them, as he pleased Having got his belly full 144 ^80PS FABLES. he called 3ut to the Ass, and bid him leave off, telliiighim, he had done enough. Upon this the lop-earedbrute, came out of his ambush, and approaching theLion, asked him, with an air of conceit, how he likedhis performance? prodigiously! says he; you did sowell, that I protest, had I not known your nature andtemper, I might have been frightened myself. THE APPLICATION. A brag-g-ing
. Fables of Aesop and others. of it, be-gan to scour off as fast as they could; when the Lion,who was posted at a proper avenue, seized and de-voured them, as he pleased Having got his belly full 144 ^80PS FABLES. he called 3ut to the Ass, and bid him leave off, telliiighim, he had done enough. Upon this the lop-earedbrute, came out of his ambush, and approaching theLion, asked him, with an air of conceit, how he likedhis performance? prodigiously! says he; you did sowell, that I protest, had I not known your nature andtemper, I might have been frightened myself. THE APPLICATION. A brag-g-ing cowajdly fellow may impose upon people that dtjnot know him; bv I it is the greatest jest imaginable to thosethat do. There are many men, who appear very terrible andbig in their manner of expressing themselves, and, if you couldbe persuaded to take their own word for it, are perfect lions;who, if, one takes the pains to inquire a little into their truenature, are as arrant asses as ever brayed. FAB. XLVin. The Sensible Ass,. An old fellow was feeding an Ass in a fine greenmeadow; and being alarmed with the sudden approachof the enemy, was impatient with the Ass to put him- iESOPS FABLES. 145 self forward, and fly with all the speed that he wasable. The Ass asked him, whether or no he thoughtthe enemy would clap two pair of panniers upon hiaback? the man said no, there was no fear of then, says the Ass, Ill not stir an incli; forwhat is it to me who my master is, since I shall buicarry my panniers, as usual. THE APPLICATION. This Fable shows us, how much in the wrong the poorer sortof people most commonly are, when they are under any concernabout the revolutions of government. All the alterations whichthey can feel is, in the name of their sovereign, or some such im-portant trifle; but they cannot well be poorer, or made to workharder than they did before. And yet how are they sometimesimposed upon, and drawn in, by the artifices of a few mistakenor designing men, to f
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