. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . eal such people were intended by Naturefor nothing above driving Hogs to a fair, andlaughing at the jokes of a country Merry An-drew. Fortune has found them worthy of herfavours, and given them a lift out of the mire :but yet they do not fail to give frequent indica-tions of their true composition, by a thousandlittle dirty actions. A fine equipage, and a B4. ^i. tn, may raise a man to an exaltedut the worki wiu ^ ^ \ ■ . i ., , \\^ a respect to his outward the man who would gau., /^ich it may so hap-
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . eal such people were intended by Naturefor nothing above driving Hogs to a fair, andlaughing at the jokes of a country Merry An-drew. Fortune has found them worthy of herfavours, and given them a lift out of the mire :but yet they do not fail to give frequent indica-tions of their true composition, by a thousandlittle dirty actions. A fine equipage, and a B4. ^i. tn, may raise a man to an exaltedut the worki wiu ^ ^ \ ■ . i ., , \\^ a respect to his outward the man who would gau., /^ich it may so hap-and make his own fortune, Vs and acts he caii-carnes his point effectually, a. tlood of without swerving or loiterii „. .. parts, and a slow apprehension, assisted bya continued diligence, are more likely to attainthis than your brisk retailers of wit, with theiraflfected spleen and indolence. And if businessbe but well done, no matter whether it be doneby the sallies of a refined wit, or the consider-ing head of a plain plodding man. FABLE LXXII. 149. THE ASS IN THE LIONs SKIW. An Ass finding the skin of a Lion, put it on;and, going into the woods and pastures, threwall the flocks and herds into a terrible conster-nation. At last, meeting his owner, he wouldhave frightened him also ; but the good man,seeing his long ears stick out, presently kneAVhim, and with a good cudgel made him sensiblethat, notwithstanding his being dressed in aLions Skin, he was really no more than anAss. APPLICATION. As all affectation is wrong, and tends to ex-pose and make a man ridiculous, so the moredistant he is from the thing v/hich he aflfects toappear, the stronger will the ridicule be whitlihe excites, and the greater the inconveniencesinto which he runs himself thereby. Howstrangely absurd it is for a timorous person toprocure a military post in order to keep himself 11 „■ 150 FABLE LXXII. out of danger 1 and to fancy a red coat thesurest protection for cowardice I
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