Fable XV. The Two Foxes

Two sexes ooe night fiuprifed a heo^roofs, where they worried the cock, the hens, and the efaickeot; and after that daughter, they began to allay their hunger: one being young and fiery would needs deroar every thing; the other, who was old and oov«toQS, wat for keeping some profifion for tonorrow. the dd one said, experience, child, has made me wife; I hate (een many things since I bare been in the world; let us not eat np our whole substance in one day; we have made our fortune, this is a treafore we have found, and we must hu(bsuxl it. young Rey* nard replied, I have a mind to eat up all while I am het«, and to lay in a bdly-suU for eight days; for 'tis a joke to think of returning, that may not be fo convenient to-morrow, the landlord to revenge rhe death of his fowls, would not fail to knock us on the head, after this conversation, each takes his course* the young one eats on till he bursts, and can hardly crawl home to his hole to die; the old one, who thinks himself much wiser to moderate his appetites, and live with oeconomy, on his return next morning to his prey, is knocked on the head by the landlord, thus every age hath its failings: young people are hot and insatiable in their pleasures; the old are incorrigible in their avarice.

WOLF AND THE LAMB,