Knaves live as Naturally upon Fools, as Spiders do upon Flyes, and the
Want of Downright Force must be Supply’d by Art. But Time that Discovers
the Truth of Things, lays open Frauds too and Double Dealings; and after
that Discovery, there’s No Passing the same Trick upon the _Mice_ and
_Rats_ here over again. A Body would think now that Reasonable Creatures
should at least have the Wit of Vermine, and not run their Necks over and
over into the same Noose; But in Despite of Claps and Surfeits, Men we
see will be Whoring and Fuddling on still. And the same Bait of Liberty
and Property will serve for the Common People _in sæcula sæculorum_, Even
after they have been Choak’d, Begger’d, and Poyson’d with it five Hundred
times before.