’Tis No New Thing for an Innocent Simplicity to be made the Sport of
Bantering Drolls, and Buffons. This is to tell Modest and Well-Meaning
Men what they are to Expect in this World, and what they are to Trust
to where there is not a Power sufficient to Repel Force by Force: And
it serves further to keep This Check upon the Insolent, that there
are Others as much too Hard for Them, as They are for Those that they
Oppress. This _Crow_ is much of the Humour of the _Mobile_. They are
Tongue-Valiant, ’tis True, and as Bold as _Hercules_ where they know
there’s No Danger, but throw a Volly of Shot among them, and they have
not the Courage of so many Hares. And what is All This now, but according
to the Guise of the World, _God Threatens Kings_, (as Dr. _Donne_ has it)
_Kings Lords, as Lords do Us_. He that’s a Tyrant over One Man is a Slave
to Another.