An _Ass_ and a _Lyon_’s Skin.
There was a Freak took an _Ass_ in the Head, to Scoure abroad upon the
Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Masquerading up and down in
a _Lyon_’s _Skin_. The World was his Own for a while, and where ever
he went, Man and Beast Fled before him: But he had the Hap in the
Conclusion, partly by his _Voice_, and partly by his _Ears_, to be
Discover’d, and consequently Uncas’d, well Laugh’d at, and well Cudgell’d
for his Pains.
The MORAL.
_The World abounds in Terrible_ Fanfarons, _in the Masque of Men of
Honour: But These_ Braggadocio_’s are Easie to be Detected; for no
Counterfeit of any Good Quality or Virtue whatsoever, will abide the
Test_.