_Cocks_ and a _Partridge_.
A _Cock-Master_ bought a _Partridge_, and turn’d it among his _Fighting
Cocks_, for them to Feed together. The _Cocks_ beat the _Partridge_
away from their Meat, which she lay’d the more to Heart, because it
look’d like an Aversion to her purely as a Stranger. But the _Partridge_
finding These very _Cocks_ afterwards, Cutting one Another to pieces, she
comforted her self with This Thought, that she had no Reason to expect
they should be Kinder to Her, then they were to One Another.
The MORAL.
_’Tis No Wonder to find Those People Troublesome to Strangers, that
Cannot Agree among Themselves. They Quarrel for the Love of Quarrelling;
and provided the Peace be broken, No matter upon What Ground, or with
Whom._