Fable XVI. The Wolf and the Lamb

AS some ihttp lay fft^ely in their soM, the dogi afieep) and the fkepherd io the (hade of a lofty ehn, playing mi the pipe, with other neighbouring (hepherds, an hungry wolf came op to the mdofure^ and began thro' its chinks to reconnoitre the state of the flock, a yiooQg unexperienced lamb, observing the wolf, entered into conrerfation with him. what come you to seek here, said he to the glutton? the tender flow«ry grass, returned the wolf; you know that nothing is more agreeable than to seed in a verdant meadow> enamelled with flowers, to alTwage one's hunger, and to quench one's third in a crystal brook: lo! here I have found both; what need I more? I love the phllofophy that teaches to be content with little, is it really true then, replied the lamb, that you don't eat the flelh of animab, and that a Uttk grass fufHceth you? if fe, let us live like brethren, and seed together, aad with that the credulous lamb leaped out of the fold into the meadow, where the temperate philosopher tore him to pieces, and swallowed him.

Diftnift the fair speeches of persons who boast of diar virtue, judge by their adtioos, and not by their wotdi.

CAT AND THE RABBITS,