52 FABLES. 



common sense, and seem not even to bestow a 

 thought upon the important consequences of culti- 

 vating their understandings. The smooth address 

 and plausible behaviour of the varnished fop may 

 indeed pass current with the ignorant and super- 

 ficial, but however much he may value himself upon 

 his birth or figure, he never fails exciting the con- 

 tempt or the pity of men of sagacity and penetra- 

 tion, and the ridicule of those who are disposed to 

 amuse themselves at the folly and vanity of such 

 as put on the mask of wisdom to cover their want 

 of brains. 



