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FABLES. 



men whose quarrels are made up of baseness and 

 villainy, and carried on with mutual treachery, 

 fraud and violence, and whose witnesses are per- 

 haps of the same character with themselves. Each 

 party may justly enough accuse the other, though 

 neither of them are worthy of belief, and deserve 

 even no credit for the imputations with which they 

 asperse each other's characters. But such men 

 need not hope long to deceive the world : a pene- 

 trating judge and an honest jury will, upon sifting 

 the matter, clearly see what kind of men they have 

 been occupying their attention with, and shew a 

 proper disgust at the wicked impudence of both 

 plaintiff and defendant. 



