REFLEXION.

Many a Fool has a Fair Out side, and Many a Man of Fortune, and Title has

not so much as a Common Sense. We have a Whole World of _Heads_ to Answer

the Drift of This Emblem: But there is No Judging however by the Senses,

of Matters that the Senses can take no Cognizance of; as Virtue, Wisdom,

and the Like. The Excellency, in fine, of the Soul is above the Beauty of

the Body: Not but that the Graces of the One, and the Endowments of the

Other, may Encounter sometimes, (how rarely soever) in One and the same

Person. But Beauty and Judgment are so far yet from being Inseperable,

that they seem effectually to Require, More or Less, a Diversity of

Temperament: Beside that More Care is taken to Cultivate the Advantages

of the Body then those of the Mind. To Wrap up all in a Word, the World

it self is but a Great Shop of _Carv’d Heads_; and the _Foxes_ Conceit

will hold as well in the Life, as in the Fiction.

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