This Fable Plays upon the Contentious Humour of People that go to Law for
Trifles. _De Asini Umbra_, is effectually but this Fancy in an _Adage_.
There needs no more to the setting of the whole World in a Flame, then
a Ouarrelsom Plaintiff and Defendant, and a Brace of _Chicaneurs_ to
Blow the Coals. Wrangling is Instructed as an Art or a Science on the
one side, and made use of as an Exercise on the other. Some People can
no more Live without Law, then without Air, and they reckon it better
Husbandry to spend a Thousand Pounds upon Counsel, to Defend a Trivial
or an Unwarrantable Cause, then to part with one single Six Pence for
the Payment of an Honest Debt. This Fable in short, is Moralliz’d in
_Westminster-Hall_, Forty times over every Term.