Small is the premium you have won:

The cuffs that make a servant free,

Are for a better man than thee.”

[VI.] THE EAGLE, CARRION CROW, AND TORTOISE.

No soul can warrant life or right,

Secure from men of lawless might;

But if a knave’s advice assist,

’Gainst fraud and force what can exist?

An Eagle on a Tortoise fell,

And mounting bore him by the shell: