L'Estrange: A Goat and a Vine

A Goat that was hard Press’d by the Huntsmen, took Sanctuary in a Vineyard, and there he lay Close, under the covert of a Vine. So soon as he thought the Danger was Over, he fell presently to Browzing upon the Leaves; and whether it was the Rustling, or the Motion of the Boughs, that gave the Huntsmen an Occasion for stricter Search, is Uncertain: But a Search there was, and in the End he was Discover’d and Shot. He dy’d, in fine, with this Conviction upon him, that his Punishment was Just, for Offering Violence to his Protector.

Ingratitude Perverts all the Measures of Religion and Society, by making it Dangerous to be Charitable and Good Natur’d.

Source: L'Estrange 148.

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