’Tis a Common Case for People to be Reduc’d to This Miserable Choice;
That is to say, by what Hand or Means they’ll rather Perish; under the
Certainty of an Inevitable Destruction One Way or other. The Ancients
have Moraliz’d it This Way. But it seems to Me (under favour) that the
_Stag_’s was a Forc’d Put; and a Chance rather then a Choice, he did
not fly from the Huntsmen to the _Lyon_ for Protection; but it so fell
out, that while he fled to Avoid a Less Danger, he ran into a Greater; We
find This to be the Case of many Men, as well as Beasts, that are Forc’d
to fly for Refuge, to Murderers and Oppressors, instead of Patrons and
Protectors.