We find this to be true upon daily Experience, that narrow Escapes out
of great Dangers, make People take _Alarums_ at less; especially of the
same Kind. One had better be Laugh’d at for taking a _Fox-Case_ for a
_Fox_ then be Destroy’d by taking a _Live-Fox_ only for a _Case_. The
very Fancy has somewhat of Reason in’t, for ’tis but a Measuring Cast,
upon such a Supposition as this, whether it proves the one or the other.
A _Lark_ we see will _Dare_ at a _Painted Hobby_. I sing’d the Toes of an
_Ape_ through a Burning-Glass my self once, and he would never be brought
to endure the sight of a Burning-Glass after. I knew another _Ape_ that
was Shot behind his Master in the Long Rebellion here, and would never
after that Endure the sight of a Pistol. Now there’s no more in all
this, then what’s Natural, Reasonable and Familiar.