. Fables of Aesop and others. t off whenever Ipleased, but suffered you to take it away without anydamage, and yet you are not contented. 36 iESOPS APPLICATION. There is a sort of people in the world to whom a man may bein the wrong for doing services, upon a double score; first, be-cause they never deserved to have a good office done them; andsecondly, because, when once engaged it is so hard a matter tobe well rid of their acquaintance. This Fable is not an example of ingratitude, as at first sightit seems to be, and as some of the mythologists have understoodit; to make it a para
. Fables of Aesop and others. t off whenever Ipleased, but suffered you to take it away without anydamage, and yet you are not contented. 36 iESOPS APPLICATION. There is a sort of people in the world to whom a man may bein the wrong for doing services, upon a double score; first, be-cause they never deserved to have a good office done them; andsecondly, because, when once engaged it is so hard a matter tobe well rid of their acquaintance. This Fable is not an example of ingratitude, as at first sightit seems to be, and as some of the mythologists have understoodit; to make it a parallel in that case, the Crane ought to havebeen under some difficulties in his turn, and the Wolf have re-fused to assist him when it was in his power. The whole stressof it lies in whom we are desired to do good offices, before wedo them: for he that grants a favour, or even confides in a per-son of no honour, instead of finding his account in it comes offwell if he is no sufferer. FAB. VIII. The Staa^ looldng into the A STAG tluit had been drinking at a clear spring,saw himself in the water; and pleased with the pros-pect, stood afterwards for some time contemplatingand surveying his shape and features, from head tofoot. All! says he, what a glorious pair of branchinghorns are these! how gracefully do these antlers hang ^SOPS FABLES. 37 over my forehead, and give an agreeable turn to mywhole face. If some other parts of my body wereproportionable to them, I would turn my back to no-body; but I have a set of such legs as really makes?me ashamed to see them. People may talk what theyplease of their conveniencies, and what great need westand in of them upon several occasions; but for mypart I find them so very slender and unsightly, that 1had as lief have none at all. While he was givinghimself these airs, he was alarmed by the noise ofsome huntsmen and a pack of hounds, that had beenjust upon the scent, and were making towards he flies in some consternation, and
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