An _Eagle_ and _Rabbets_.
There was an _Eagle_ that drew a Nest of _Rabbets_, and carry’d them
away to her Young. The _Mother-Cony_ follow’d her with Tears in her
Eyes, Adjuring her in the Name of All those Powers that take care of the
Innocent and Oppressed, to have Compassion upon her Miserable Children:
But she, in an Outrage of Pride and Indignation, Tears them presently
to pieces. The _Cony_, upon This, Convenes a Whole _Warren_; Tells her
Story, and Advises upon a Revenge: For _Divine Justice_ (says she) _will
never suffer so Barbarous a Cruelty to scape Unpunish’d_. They Debated
the Matter, and came to an Unanimous _Resolve upon the Question_, that
there was no Way of paying the _Eagle_ in her Kind, but by Undermining
the Tree where she Timber’d. So they all fell to Work at the Roots of
the Tree, and left it so little _Foot hold_, that the first Blast of
Wind laid it Flat upon the Ground, _Nest, Eagles and all_. Some of ’em
were Kill’d with the Fall; Others were Eaten up by Birds and Beasts of
Prey, and the _Cony_ had the Comfort at last, of Destroying the _Eagle_’s
Children, in Revenge for her Own.
The MORAL.
_’Tis Highly Imprudent, even in the Greatest of Men, Unnecessarily to
Provoke the Meanest, when the Pride of_ Pharaoh _Himself was brought down
by Miserable Frogs and Lice_.