A _Cock_ and _Horses_.
A Cock was got into a Stable, and there was he Nestling in the Straw
among the Horses; and still as the Fit took ’em they’d be Stamping and
Flinging, and laying about ’em with their Heels. So the Cock very gravely
Admonish’d them; Pray, my Good Friends, let us have a Care, says he, that
we don’t Tread upon One Another.
The MORAL.
_Unequal Conversations are Dangerous and Inconvenient to the Weaker Side
in many Respects, whether it be in Regard of Quality, Fortune, or the
like; where the weight of the One, sinks the Other: And no matter whether
we Embark out of Vanity or Folly; for ’tis Hazzardous both ways._