FAB. XVII.

A _Sick Kite_ and her _Mother_.

Pray _Mother_, (says a Sick _Kite_) Give over these Idle Lamentations,

and let me rather have your Prayers. Alas! my Child, (says the Dam) which

of the Gods shall I go to, for a Wretch that has Robb’d All their Altars?

The MORAL.

_Nothing but the Conscience of a Virtuous Life can make Death Easie to

us; Wherefore there’s No trusting to the Distraction of an Agonizing, and

a Death-bed Repentance._

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