A _Nightingale_ and a _Bat_.
As a _Nightingale_ was Singing in a Cage at a Window, up comes a _Bat_
to her, and Asks her why she did not Sing in the Day, as well as in the
Night. Why (says the _Nightingale_) I was Catch’d Singing in the Day, and
so I took it for a Warning: You should have thought of This then, says
T’other, before you were Taken; for as the Case stands now, Y’are in no
Danger to be Snapt Singing again.
The MORAL.
_A Wrong Reason for the Doing of a Thing is worse then no Reason at all._