REFLEXION.

One Good Turn, we say, requires Another; and it may be added that one

Shrewd Turn Deserves and Provokes Another. The _Asses_ want of Charity

in One Minute, cost him his Life in the next; and he was paid in his

Own Kind too, in the return of One Scorn for Another. It was an Offence

against the very Laws of Nature, and Society, and the Punishment

Consequently was Providential and Just. He that shews no Compassion,

shall find None.

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