_Pigeons_ Reconcile the _Hawks_.
There Happen’d a Bloudy Civil War once among the _Hawks_, and what did
the Poor, Peaceable, Innocent _Pigeons_, but in Pure Pity, and Good
Nature, send their Deputies and Mediators to do the Best they could to
make ’em Friends again, so long as This Feud Lasted; they were so Intent
upon Killing one another, that they Minded nothing else; but no sooner
was the Quarrel taken up among Themselves, then they fell to their Old
sport again of Destroying the _Pigeons_. This brought them to a Sight of
their Error, and to Understand the Danger of Uniting a Common Enemy to
their Own Ruine.
The MORAL.
_Good Men are never safe but when Wicked Men are at Odds. So that the
Divisions of the One are the Security of the Other._