here said, may serve as a Moral to an
Arabian
Fable, which I find translated into
French
by Monsieur
Galland
.
The Fable has in it such a wild, but natural Simplicity, that I question not but my Reader will be as much pleased with it as I have been, and that he will consider himself, if he reflects on the several Amusements of Hope which have sometimes passed in his Mind, as a near Relation to the