FAB. CCCCLXII.

A _Crow_ and a _Raven_.

The Ancients tell us that the _Crow_ was once _Minerva_’s Favourite, and

the _Raven_ _Apollo_’s; but the One of them was found to be so full of

Tongue, so Over-Officious and Inquisitive; and the Other so Desperately

given to Croking and Fore-boding upon Evil Things to come, that they fell

both into Disgrace for’t.

The MORAL.

_Great Talkers, Medlers, and Busie-Bodies, are the very Pest of Human

Society._

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