An _Eagle_ and an _Owl_.
A Certain _Eagle_ that had a mind to be well serv’d, took up a Resolution
of Preferring Those that she found most agreeable, for Person and
Address; and so there past an Order of Council for All Her Majesty’s
Subjects to bring their Children to Court. They came accordingly, and
Every One in their Turn was for Advancing their Own: Till at last the
_Owl_ fell a Mopping, and Twinkling, and told Her Majesty, that if a
Gracious Meen and Countenance might Entitle any of her Subjects to a
Preference, she doubted not but her Brood would be look’d upon in the
First Place; for they were as like the Mother, as if they had been spit
out of their Mouth. Upon this the Board fell all into a Fit of Laughing,
and call’d Another Cause.
The MORAL of the Two FABLES above.
_No Body ever saw an Ill-favour’d Fool in the World yet, Man, or Woman,
that had not a Good Opinion of its Own Wit and Beauty._