The Greatest of Temporal Blessings, are Health, and Long Life; and the
most Durable of Good Things must Consequently be the Best. The Question
here betwixt the _Crow_ and the _Swallow_, has somewhat in it of the Case
betwixt Virtue and Sensual Pleasures, as (for the purpose) of Youth,
Wine, Women, and All other Entertainments whatsoever, that may serve to
Gratify a Carnal Appetite. Here’s Temporary Oppos’d to Eternal; Joys that
shall Endure for Ever, Fresh, and in Vigor; to Satisfactions that are
attended with Satiety and Surfeits, and Flatten in the very Tasting.