Where Men will be Fooling and Bantering, a Trick for a Trick is but
Common Reason and Justice; and it comes closer yet too, when the Trick
is Encounter’d with Another of the same kind; for it does not only spoil
the Jest, but makes the Agressor Himself Ridiculous; especially when the
Design is Forelay’d and Concerted in Form, as here in the Fable. The
Frolick of a Cleanly Banter, may do well enough _off-hand_, and without
_Affectation_; but a _Deliberated_ Foolery is most Abominably Fulsome.