A _Boy_ and _False Alarms_.
A _Shepherd’s Boy_ had gotten a Roguy Trick of crying [a _Wolfe_, a
_Wolfe_] when there was no such Matter, and Fooling the Country People
with _False Alarms_. He had been at This Sport so many times in Jest,
that they would not Believe him at last when he was in Earnest: And so
the _Wolves_ Brake in upon the Flock, and Worry’d the _Sheep_ at Pleasure.
The MORAL.
_He must be a very Wise Man that knows the True Bounds, and Measures
of Fooling, with a respect to Time, Place, Matters, Persons, &c. But
Religion, Business and Cases of Consequence must be Excepted out of that
sort of Liberty._