This Fable shews the great Oversight of Engaging in Quarrels, without
considering from what Quarter the Danger may come. Where Adversaries are
unequally Match’d, it will behove the Weaker to supply the want of Force
and Courage, by Invention and Address. Presumption can never Justifie
either Temerity or Carelessness; for every Creature has its Weak Side,
and lies open to be Impos’d upon by Craft or Surprize. There’s an Infamy
in the very Challenge of so Base and Timorous a Creature; but then to be
Worsted by an _Animal_ that’s the Scorn of all the Rest, is Shameful and
Ridiculous to the Highest Degree.