A _Stag_ and a _Lyon_.
A _Stag_ that was close Pursu’d by Huntsmen, fled for Safety into a
_Lyon’s Den_; and as he was just Expiring under the Paw of the _Lyon_:
Miserable Creature that I am, says he, to fly for Protection from Men, to
the most Unmerciful of Beasts!
The MORAL.
_There are Harder and Gentler Ways, even of Ruin it self; as ’tis Common
we see for Men under a Capital Sentence to Petition even for the Change
of the Death._