A _Generous Lion_.
As a _Lion_ was Bestriding an _Ox_ that he had newly Pluck’d down, a
Robber passing by, Cry’d out to him, _Half-Shares_. You should go your
Snip, says the Lion, if you were not so forward to be your own Carver.
The Thief had but just turn’d his Back, when up comes an Innocent
Traveller, that so soon as ever he saw the _Lion_, was going off again.
The _Lion_ bad him fear Nothing, but take part of the Prey with him in
Reward of his Modesty: Whereupon the Lion went immediately into the Woods
to make Way for the Traveller.
The MORAL.
_If Great Men in the World would but follow the Example of the Lion in
this Fable, Sharpers should not Ride in Triumph any longer, while Honest
Men go out at the Elbows._