FAB. CXXXVI.

A _Mole_ and _her Dam_.

Mother (says a _Mole_ to her _Dam_) _Here’s a Strange Smell Methinks_.

And then she was at it again, _There’s a Mulberry-Tree I perceive_. And

so a Third Time, _What a Clattering of Hammers do I hear_. Daughter says

the Old One, You have now quite Betray’d your self; for I thought You had

Wanted only One Sense, and now I find you want Three; for you can neither

Hear, nor Smell, any more then you can See.

The MORAL.

_Men Labour under Many Imperfections that No Body would take Notice of,

if themselves were not Over sollicitous to Conceal them._

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