Scoundrels are apt to be Insolent toward their Superiours; but it does
not yet become a Man of Honour and Wisdom, to Contest with Mean Rascals;
and to Answer Every Fool in his Folly. One Indignity is not to be
Reveng’d by Another.
The very Contest sets the Master and the Man upon the Same Level; and the
_Lion_ was in the Right, not to Cast away his Displeasure upon an _Asse_,
where there was only Reputation to be Lost, and None to be Gotten. The
very Beasts of the Forrest will Rise up in Judgment against such men.
Contempt in such a Case as This, is the only Honorable Revenge.