A _Kingfisher_.
The _Kingfisher_ is a Solitary Bird, that Wonts commonly by the
Water-side, and Nestles in Hollow Banks, to be out of reach of the
Fowlers. One of These Birds happen’d to be forraging abroad for her Young
Ones, and in This _Interim_, comes a Raging Torrent, that washes away
Nest, Birds and all. Upon her Return, finding how ’twas with her, she
brake out into This Exclamation: Unhappy Creature that I am! to fly from
the bare Apprehension of One Enemy, into the Mouth of Another.
The MORAL.
_’Tis many a wise Man’s hap, while he is Providing against One Danger,
to fall into Another: And for his very Providence to turn to his
Destruction._