FAB. XXXII.

A _Fox_ and a _Carv’d Head_.

As a _Fox_ was rumidging among a Great many _Carv’d Figures_, there was

One very Extraordinary Piece among the Rest. He took it up, and when

he had Consider’d it a while, Well, (says he) What Pity ’tis, that so

Exquisite an Outside of a Head should not have one Grain of Sense in’t.

The MORAL.

_’Tis not the Barber or the Taylor that makes the Man; and ’tis No New

Thing to see a Fine Wrought Head without so much as One Grain of Salt

in’t._

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