Birds of Prey will be Birds of Prey still, at what Rate soever you Treat
’em. So that there’s no Trusting of them: For when they have no longer
a Power to do Mischief, the Will yet Remains. Here’s a Forc’d Moral for
a Forc’d Fable: For the Fancy of it is against Nature, and the Fiction
does not consist with it self. Now to My Thinking This Application of it
lies the Fairer of the Two, _i.e._ That the Gratitude of the _Eagle_, in
bringing the _Hare_ to her Master, may serve to shew us, that the Wildest
and Fiercest of Creatures may be Sweetn’d, and Reclaim’d by Benefits.