A _Lyon_ and a _Man_.
There was a Controversie Started betwixt a _Lyon_ and a _Man_, which was
the Braver, and the Stronger Creature of the Two. Why look ye, says the
_Man_, (after a long Dispute) we’ll Appeal to that Statue there, and so
he shew’d him the Figure of a _Man_ Cut in Stone, with a _Lyon_ under
his Feet. Well! says the _Lyon_, if _We_ had been brought up to Painting
and Carving, as _You_ are, where you have _One Lyon_ under the Feet of a
_Man_, you should have had _Twenty Men_ under the Paw of a _Lyon_.
The MORAL.
_’Tis against the Rules of Common Justice for Men to be Judges in their
Own Case._