A League betwixt the _Wolves_ and the _Sheep_.
There was a time when the _Sheep_ were so Hardy as to Wage War with the
_Wolves_; and so long as they had the _Dogs_ for their Allies, they
were upon all Encounters, at least a Match for their Enemies. Upon This
Consideration, the _Wolves_ sent their Embassadors to the _Sheep_, to
Treat about a Peace, and in the mean Time there were Hostages given
on Both Sides; the _Dogs_ on the part of the _Sheep_, and the _Wolves
Whelps_ on the Other Part, ’till Matters might be brought to an Issue.
While they were upon Treaty, the _Whelps_ fell a Howling; The _Wolves_
cryed out Treason; and pretending an Infraction in the Abuse of their
Hostages, fell upon the _Sheep_ immediately without their _Dogs_, and
made them pay for the Improvidence of leaving themselves without a Guard.
The MORAL.
_’Tis senseless in the Highest Degree to think of Establishing
an Alliance among those that Nature her self has Divided, by an
Inconciliable Disagreement. Beside, that a Foolish Peace is much more
Destructive then a Bloody War._