The Truer Hearted any Man is, the more Lyable is he to be Impos’d upon:
And then the World calls it _Out-witting_ of a Man; when, in truth he’s
only _Out-knav’d_: And oblig’d, even in Charity and Good Nature, to
Believe till he be Couzen’d. And we find the Country-man’s Observation
Confirm’d by Daily Experience. This does not yet Hinder a sincere
Singleness of Heart from being a Vertue so necessary for the Comfort and
Security of Mankind, that Humane Society cannot subsist without it. And
therefore ’tis a Thousand Pities it should be so Discountenanc’d, and
Abus’d, as in the Common Practice of the World we find it is. But it
stands Firm however to the same Tenor of Life. As the _Pigeon_ kept still
to the same Hole to lay her Eggs in what’ere she Lost by’t.