Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Injustice sets up the Rigorous Letter of the Law to Weigh against the Improbity of the Witness: The Pawn-Broker pretends Charity, and the Oppressor Flays the Widow and the Orphan: And at the same Time, Preaches Mercy and Compassion, with the very same Breath. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Now if All our Moral Wolves in Sheeps-Cloathing, were but Serv'd as This Hypocritical Wolfe was in the Fiction, and Hung-up Indeed, with their Crimes in Capital Letters on their Foreheads, Common Truth and Honeslty among Men would be more Sacred. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Neighbours made a Wonderment of it, and Ask’d him what he meant to Hang up his Sheep? Oh, says he, That's only the Skin of a Sheep, that was made use of to Cover the Heart, Malice, and Body of a Wolfe that Shrouded himself Under it. The MORAL. Hypocrisie is only the Devils Stalking Horse, under an Affectation of Simplicity and Religion. People are not to be Judg'd by their Looks, Habits, and Appearances ”
