’Tis Impossible for an Envious Man to be Happy. He makes the World his
Enemies, and the Mischief that he does to Others, returns in a Judgment
upon his Own Head. There’s No Trusting of a Crafty Designing Knave. I do
not speak of the Trust of Privacy and Confidence only; but a Wise Man
would not so much as Venture himself in such Company, nor let him come
within distance of so much as knowing how to put a Trick upon him. This
Fable shews us the Danger of such Conversation. And it shews us likewise
the Just Fate that Attends the Treachery, even of One Traitor to Another:
The _Wolfe_ had a Design upon the _Fox_: The _Fox_ had a Counter-Design
upon the _Wolfe_: (which was no more then a Couple of Crafty Knaves well
Match’d) And the Shepherd did Justice upon them both.