Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ AN Unlucky Fox dropt into a Well, and cry'd out for Help: A Wolf overheard him, and looks down to see what the Matter was. Ah, (says Reynard,) Pray lend me your Hand Friend, or I'm lost else. Poor Creature! ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Let a Man be never so Wicked, 'tis a Base and an Unmanly thing to Insult upon him in his Calamity, His Punishment may be Just; and when he suffers Justice, 'tis all that a Good and a Generous Man can wish for in the Case. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Scomms of Great Men, or Buffoons of Quality, are every jot as Wolvish in Conversation, as they are here in the Fable; though 'tis look'd upon, I know, as a Mark of Breeding, and the Indication of a Man that has Notable Skill in the World, to turn the Earnest of all Things and Duties, Sacred and Civil, into a Jest, and to put the Common Principles of Faith, Truth, Justice and Respect, out of Countenance. ”
