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FABLES. 



proverb of the more haste the worse speed, is felt 

 and fully verified. This Fable has been pointed at 

 those authors, whose itch for scribbling has been an 

 annoyance to the world, rather than of any real use 

 to it; and who have been proud of, and boasted of 

 the numerous but flimsy productions of their vain 

 and shallow brains. It is proper to put such people 

 in mind, that it is not he w r ho does the most, but he 

 who does the best, that will meet the approbation 

 of mankind. 



