The _Sun_ and the _Wind_.
There happen’d a Controversie betwixt the _Sun_ and the _Wind_, which
was the Stronger of the Two; and they put the Point upon This Issue:
There was a Traveller upon the Way, and which of the Two could make That
Fellow Quit his Cloak should carry the Cause. The _Wind_ fell presently
a Storming, and threw Hail-Shot over and above in the very Teeth of him.
The Man Wraps himself up, and keeps Advancing still in spight of the
Weather: But this Gust in a short Time Blew over; and then the _Sun_
Brake out, and fell to Work upon him with his Beams; but still he Pushes
forward, Sweating, and Panting, till in the End he was forc’d to Quit
his Cloak, and lay himself down upon the Ground in a Cool Shade for his
Relief. So that the _Sun_, in the Conclusion, carry’d the Point.
The MORAL.
_Reason and Resolution will Support a Man against All the Violences
of Malice and Fortune; but in a Wallowing Qualm, a Man’s Heart and
Resolution fails him, for want of Fit Matter to Work upon._