This Fable Preaches both Obedience and Caution; the One as a Matter of
Duty, the Other as a Point of Prudence. The _Wolfe_ sings directly the
same Note here with the Common Seducers and Incendiaries, that we Meet
with in the world. And to the same End too; for they are both Agreed
upon’t, that so soon as ever they shall have withdrawn the _Lambs_, or
the _People_, from their _Religion_ and _Allegiance_, and gotten them out
of the Pale, and Protection of their Parents and Governours, they’l make
a Prey of ’em Themselves. What’s the Wheedling of the _Lamb_ out of the
Station where Authority had Plac’d him, to go home again for a Belly-full
of Sweet Milk; but a State-Trick of Inveigling the Multitude into a
Fools-Paradise, without Understanding One Word of the Matter in Question!
But some _Lambs_ are Wiser and Honester then some _Men_: And this very
_Lamb’s_ Answer might have become the Mouth of a Good Christian and a
Good Subject. For a Conclusion; The _Wolves_ Preaching to the _Sheep_,
and the _Foxes_ Preaching to the _Geese_, hold forth the same Moral.