A _Husbandman_ and a _Stork_.
A Poor Innocent _Stork_ had the Ill Hap to be taken in a Net that was
layd for _Geese_ and _Cranes_. The _Storks_ Plea for her self was
Simplicity, and Piety: The Love she bare to Mankind, and the Service
she did in Picking up Venemous Creatures. This is all True, says the
_Husbandman_; But They that Keep Ill Company, if they be Catch’d with Ill
Company, must Expect to suffer with Ill Company.
The MORAL.
_’Tis as much as a Man’s Life, Fortune, and Reputation, are Worth, to
keep Good Company (over and above the Contagion of Lewd Examples) for as_
Birds of a Feather will Flock together, _so if the Good and the Bad be
taken together, they must Expect to go the Way of All Flesh together_.