Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ This Sot of a Swallow has been the Ruine of us Both. The Moral. Extraordinary Cases are Excepted out of the General Rules of Life: So that Irregular Accidents and Instances are not to be drawn into President. REFLEXION. Every Man Stands or Falls to his Own Reason ”
