. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FABLE 9!. THE PEACOCK AXD THE CRANE. X HE Peacock and the Crane by chance mettogether in the same place. The Peacockerecting his tail, displayed his gaudy plumes,and looked with contempt upon the Crane, assome mean ordinary person. The Crane, re-solving to mortify his insolence, took occasionto say, that Peacocks were very fine birds in-deed, iJF fine feathers could make them so; buttiiat he thought it a much nobler thing to be ableto rise above the clouds, than to strut aboutupon the ground, and be gazed at b
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . FABLE 9!. THE PEACOCK AXD THE CRANE. X HE Peacock and the Crane by chance mettogether in the same place. The Peacockerecting his tail, displayed his gaudy plumes,and looked with contempt upon the Crane, assome mean ordinary person. The Crane, re-solving to mortify his insolence, took occasionto say, that Peacocks were very fine birds in-deed, iJF fine feathers could make them so; buttiiat he thought it a much nobler thing to be ableto rise above the clouds, than to strut aboutupon the ground, and be gazed at by children. APPLICATION. It is very absurd to slight or insult anotherupon his wanting a property which we possess;for he may, for any thing we know, have asjust reason to triumph over us, by being masterof some good quality of which we are incapa-ble. But, in regard to the fable before us, thatv/liich the Peacock values himself upon, ths 92 FABLE XLIV. glitter and finery of dress, is one of the mosttrifling considerations in nature; and what aman of sense would be ashamed to reckon evenas
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