A _Woman_, _Cat_ and _Mice_.
A Good Woman that was willing to keep her Cheeses from the Mice, thought
to mend the matter by getting her a Cat. Now _Puss_ Answer’d the Womans
Intent and Expectation, in keeping the _Mice_ from Nibbling the Cheeses;
but she her self at the same time devour’d the Mice, Cheese and all.
The MORAL.
_This has been our Case within the Memory of Man: There were a matter of
Half a Dozen Little Roguy Political Mice lay Nibbling at our Liberties
and Properties, and all Peoples Mouths Open’d for the Providing of some
500 Cats to Destroy them. The end on’t was this, they Kill’d the Vermine;
but then they Gobbled up Priviledges and All: And was not the World well
Amended?_