REFLEXION.

There’s no Peace to be Expected among those that are Naturally Fierce

and Quarrelsome. But we are to Distinguish however, betwixt Injuries of

Malice, and of Evil Nature, as we do betwixt Violences in Hot Bloud, and

Those of Deliberate Spite and Intention; which we find in the Common

Cases of _Manslaughter_, and _Murder_. The Doctrine may be briefly This,

that so far as Possible, we are to Avoid Ill Company: but where we are

forc’d upon’t, there’s No Remedy but Patience. The _Cocks_ here Did but

according to their Kind; And it is the Same Thing with Wicked Men too,

(as Birds of the same Feather) to be Troublesome to Other People as well

as to One Another.

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