A _Pike_ sets up for _Sovereignty_.
There was a _Master-Pike_, that for his Bulk, Beauty and Strength, was
look’d upon to be the Prince of the River, but the Sovereignty of the
_Fresh Water_ would not Content him, it seems, unless he might Engross
to himself the Empire of the _Sea_ too. Upon this Ambitious Design,
he Launch’d out into the _Ocean_, and put up his Claim to’t; But a
Prodigious _Dolphin_ took This Encroachment upon his Right in such
Dudgeon, that he set upon the _Pike_; Gave him Chace, and Pursu’d him to
the Borders of his own Stream, Insomuch that the _Pike_ had enough to
do to Save Himself; and from that Time forward, he had the Wit to keep
within the Compass of his Own Dominions.
The MORAL.
_Ambition has no other Bounds then what Providence has Prescrib’d to it,
for the Good of Mankind._ Here shall thy Proud Waves Stay: _And there
must be No Passing Those Limits_.