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: