Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Love she bore to Mankind, and the Service she did in Picking up of Venomous Creatures. This is all True, says the Husbandman; But They that Keep Ill Company, if they be Catch’d with Ill Company, must Expect to suffer with Ill Company. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ This is to bid men have a care What Company they keep; for when the Good and Bad are Taken together, they must Go together. Not but that a man may lye under some Obligation of Duty and Respect, to Visit, Eat and Correspond with Many People that he does not Like. ”
