FAB. XLVII.

A _Tree_ and a _Wedge_.

A Workman was Cutting down a _Tree_ to make _Wedges_ of it. Well! says

the _Tree_, I cannot but be extremely Troubled at the Thought of what I

am now a doing; And I do not so much Complain neither, of the _Axe_ that

does the Execution, as of the Man that Guides it; but it is My Misery

that I am to be Destroy’d by the Fruit of my own Body.

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