Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Here is Prudence, Caution, and Obedience, recommended to us in the Kids refusal to Open the Door ; and here is likewise set forth in the Wolf , the Practice of a Fraudulent, and a Bloody Impostor. This Moral runs through the Whole Business of Humane Life, for so much as the Plot is carry'd on against the Simple and the Innocent, under False Colours, and Feigned Pretences. There are Wolves, in Policy, as Well as in Mythology; and if the Kids Obedience had not been more than her Sagacity, she would have found, to her Cost, the Teeth of a Wolf, in the mouth of a Goat ”
