Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ THE Truer Hearted any Man is, the more Lyable is he to be Impos'd upon: And then the World calls it Out-witting of a Man; when, in truth, he’s only Out-knav’d: And obligd, even in Charity and Good Nature, to Believe till he be Couzen’d. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ A Pigeon and a Pye. A Pye was Wond'ring once to a Pigeon, why she would Breed still in the same Hole, when her Young Ones were constantly taken away from her before they were able to fly. Why That's my Simplicity, says the Pigeon, I mean no Harm, and I suspect None. The MORAL. Do as You would be done by, is a Better Rule in the Doctrine, then in the Practice: For Trust as you would be Trusted, will not hold betwixt a Knave and an Honest Man. There's no Dealing with a Sharper but at his Own Play. ”
