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upon FOLLY. ae
licable to the People who if they had fuch
Mia removed, as they complained of
for Extortion, yet their Succeffors would cer¬
tainly be worfe. ve
Wits what higheft Advances of roe
could Sertoréus have kept the Barbarians fo
well in Awe, as by a White Hart, which he
pretended was prefented to him by Diana, and
Defigns? What was Lycurgus his Grand Ar¬
gument for demonftrating the Force of Educa¬
tion, but only the bringing out Two Whelps of
the fame Bitch, differently brought up, and
placing before them a difh, and a live Hate
ne] had beena Kitchen, prefently fell alicking
the Platter. Thus the before-mentioned
Sertorius made his Soldiers fenfible that Wit
and Contrivance would do more than bare
Strength, by fetting a couple of Men to the
plucking off Two Horfes Tails s the firtt pul¬
ling at all in one Handful, tugged in vain,
while the other, though much the weaker,
{natching off one by one, foon performed his
Instances of like Nature are Alinos,
King Numa, both which fooled the People
the firſt pretending he was adviſed by Fuzz¬
ver, the latter by making the Vulgar believe
in all Debates and TranfaGions. And indeed
it is by fuch Wheedles that the Common
E People