A _Bear_ and _Bees_.
A _Bear_ was so Enrag’d once at the Stinging of a _Bee_, that he ran
like Mad into the _Bee-Garden_, and Over-turn’d All the _Hives_ in
Revenge. This Outrage brought them Out in Whole Troops upon him; and he
came afterwards to Bethink himself, how much more Advisable it had been
to Pass over One Injury, then by an Unprofitable Passion to Provoke a
Thousand.
The MORAL.
_Better pass over an Affront from One Scoundrel, then draw the Whole Herd
of the Mobile about a Man’s Ears._