A _Lion_ and a _Mouse_.
Upon the Roaring of a Beast in the Wood, a _Mouse_ ran presently out to
see what News: and what was it, but a _Lion_ Hamper’d in a Net! This
Accident brought to her mind, how that she her self, but some few Days
before, had fall’n under the Paw of a Certain Generous _Lion_, that let
her go again. Upon a Strict Enquiry into the Matter, she found This to
be that very _Lion_; and so set her self presently to Work upon the
Couplings of the Net; Gnaw’d the Threds to pieces, and in Gratitude
Deliver’d her Preserver.
The MORAL.
_Without Good Nature, and Gratitude, Men had as good live in a
Wilderness, as in a Society. There is no Subject so Inconsiderable, but
his Prince, at some time or Other, may have Occasion for him, and it
holds through the Whole Scale of the Creation, that the Great and the
Little have Need one of Another._