. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . d, but suffered you to takeit away without any damage, and yet you arenot contented. H 170 FABLE LXXXII. APPLICATION. There is a sort of people in the world, towhom a man may be in the wrong for doingservices, upon a double score: first, becausethey never deserved to have a good office donethem; and, secondly, because, when once en- jtk gaged, il is so hard a matter to get well rid of ^^ their acquaintance. This fable is not an example of ingratitude,as at first sight it seems to be, and as some ofthe mythologists h
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . d, but suffered you to takeit away without any damage, and yet you arenot contented. H 170 FABLE LXXXII. APPLICATION. There is a sort of people in the world, towhom a man may be in the wrong for doingservices, upon a double score: first, becausethey never deserved to have a good office donethem; and, secondly, because, when once en- jtk gaged, il is so hard a matter to get well rid of ^^ their acquaintance. This fable is not an example of ingratitude,as at first sight it seems to be, and as some ofthe mythologists have understood it; to make ita parallel in that case, the Crane ought to havebeen under some difficulties in his turn, and theWolf have refused to assist him when it was inhis power. The whole stress of it lies in this:that we ought to consider what kind of peoplethey are to whom we are desired to do goodoffices, before we do them ; for he that grants afavour, or even confides in a person of nohonour, instead of finding his account in it,comes off well if he is no FAB1,E LXXXIir. 171
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