A _Peacock_ to _Juno_.
The _Peacock_, they say, laid it Extremely to Heart, that being _Juno’s
Darling-Bird_, he had not the _Nightingale’s_ Voice super-added to the
Beauty of his own Plumes. Upon This Subject he Petition’d his Patroness,
who gave him for Answer, that Providence had Assign’d Every Bird its
Proportion, and so bad him Content himself with his Lot.
The MORAL of the Three FABLES above.
_The Bounties of Heaven are in such manner Distributed, that Every Living
Creature has its Share; beside, that to Desire Things against Nature, is
Effectually to Blame the very Author of Nature it self._