. Fables of Aesop and others. nd a dislike to everything which they cannot obtain. There is a strange propensityin mankind to this temper, and there are numbers of grumblingmalcontents in every different faculty and sect of life. The dis-carded statesman, considering the corruption of the time, wouldnot have any hand in the administration of affairs for all the world. The country squire dams a court life, and would not go and creeping to a drawing-room for the best place the kinghas in his disposal. A young fellow being asked how he liked acelebrated beauty, by whom all the world kne
. Fables of Aesop and others. nd a dislike to everything which they cannot obtain. There is a strange propensityin mankind to this temper, and there are numbers of grumblingmalcontents in every different faculty and sect of life. The dis-carded statesman, considering the corruption of the time, wouldnot have any hand in the administration of affairs for all the world. The country squire dams a court life, and would not go and creeping to a drawing-room for the best place the kinghas in his disposal. A young fellow being asked how he liked acelebrated beauty, by whom all the world knew he was despis-ed, answered, she has a stinking breath. How insufferable is thepride of this poor creature mani who would stoop to the basest,vilest actions, rather than be thought not able to do any what is more base and vile than lying? and when do we liemore notoriously, than when we disparage and find fault with atiling; for no other reason but because it is out of our power? FAB. XXIII. The Viper and the A Viper entering a smiths shop, looked up anddown for something to eat; and seeing a file, beganF 62 > ^SOFS FABLES. knawing it as greedily as could be. The file told himvery gruffly, that he had best be quiet, and let himalone; for that he would get very little by nil)bling atone, who, upon occasion, could bite iron and this Fable we are cautioned to consider what any personis before v:e make an attack upon him, after any manner what-soever; particularly, how we let our tongues slip in censuringthe actions of those who are, in the opinion of the world, notonly of an unquestionable reputation, so tliat nobody will believewhat we insinuate against them; but of such an influence, uponaccount of their own veracity, that the least word from therawould ruin our credit to all intents and purposes. If wit be thecase, and we have a satirical vein, which at certain periods musthave a flow, let us be cautious at whom we level it; for if
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