There’s No Fastening an Obligation upon Those that have neither Justice,
Gratitude, nor Good Faith; and it is the same Case in Effect, with Those
that do not Understand when they are Well-us’d: From whence we may infer
this Doctrine, that Fools and Knaves are not Company for Honest Men. The
Course and Violent Part of the Common People have much in them of this
Currs Humour. They Plunge themselves into Difficulties by Mistaking their
Way, and then fly in the Face of Those that would Set them Right again.
In This Opposition to Duty and Discretion, they Pursue their Errors,
’till in the End, they are left to the Fate of their Own Madness and
Folly; and Consequently Perish without Any Hope, or Means of Pity or
Redress. The _Gard’ner_ would have sav’d his _Dog_ from _Drowning_, and
the _Curr_ bit his _Master_ by the _Fingers_ for his Pains.