There are _Braying Men_ in the World, as well as _Braying Asses_; for,
what’s Loud and Senseless Talking, Huffing, Damming and Blaspheming, any
other then a more fashionable way of _Braying_? Only the one is that to
the Ear, which the other is to the Mind; and a Man may better endure the
Shocking of his Sense, then the Affronting of his Reason. The _Lion_,
’tis True, might have kept better Company; but so long as it was only
for his Diversion, it gives us to Understand how far Great Men may be
allow’d to make themselves Merry with _Buffons_. The _Wolves_ running
away from the _Ass_, while the _Lion_ was looking on, tells us in the
Allegory, That _Favourite Asses_ have the Privilege of _Favourite Dogs_;
they may Snap and Snarl where they please _Gratis_: But ’tis for their
Master’s sake at last, that they come off with a whole Skin. And what’s
the Issue now of all this Noise in the Conclusion, but the making of the
Noise-Makers still the more Ridiculous?