FAB. XV.

An _Asse_ and a _Whelp_.

A Gentleman had got a Favourite _Spaniel_, that would be still Toying

and Leaping upon him, Licking his Cheeks, and playing a Thousand pretty

Gamboles, which the Master was well enough pleas’d withall. This Wanton

Humour succeeded so well with the _Puppy_, that an _Asse_ in the House

would needs go the same Gamesome Way to Work, to Curry favour for

Himself too; but he was quickly given to understand, with a Good Cudgel,

the Difference betwixt the One Play-Fellow and the Other.

The MORAL.

_People that live by Example, should do well to look very Narrowly into

the Force and Authority of the President, without Saying, or Doing Things

at a Venture: for that may Become One Man, which would be Absolutely

Intolerable in Another, under Differing Circumstances._

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