_A Second Treat of Tongues._
_Xanthus_’s Guests met again The Next day according to The Appointment;
and Æsop had provided them the very same Services of _Tongues and Tongues
over and over_, as they had the night before. Sirrah (says _Xanthus_ to
his Servant) what’s the Meaning of This; That _Tongues_ should be the
_Best_ of Meats _One_ Day, and the _Worst_ the _Other_? Why Sir says he,
There is not any Wickedness under the Sun, That the _Tongue_ has not
a part in. As Murders, Treasons, Violence, Injustice, Frauds, and All
Manner of Lewdness: for Counsels must be first Agitated, The Matter in
Question Debated, Resolv’d upon, and Communicated by Words, before the
Malice comes to be executed in Fact. _Tongue, Whither wilt Thou!_ (says
the Old Proverb) I go to _Build_ (says the _Tongue_,) and I go to _pull
down_.
This Petulant Liberty of Æsop, Gall’d his Master to the very Soul of
him, and one of the Guests, to Help forward his Evil Humour; Cry’d out,
_This Fellow is enough to make a Body Mad_. Sir (says Æsop) you have
very Little Business to do of your own I perceive, by the Leisure you
have to Intermeddle in Other Peoples Matters; You would find some other
Employment else, then to Irritate a Master against his Servant.