FAB. CCXXXVI.

A _Lyon_ and _Bulls_.

There was a Party of _Bulls_ that Struck up a League to Keep and Feed

together, and to be _One and All_, in case of a Common Enemy. If the

_Lyon_ could have Met with any of them Single, he would have done His

Work, but so long as they Stuck to This Confederacy, there was No Dealing

with them. They fell to Variance at last among Themselves: The _Lyon_

made his Advantage of it, and then with Great Ease he Gain’d his End.

The MORAL.

_This is to tell us the Advantage, the Necessity, and the Force of Union;

And that Division brings Ruine._

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