L'Estrange: A Mole and her Dam

Mother (says a Mole to her Dam) here’s a strange Smell methinks. And then she was at it again, there’s a Mulberry Tree I perceive. And a third time, what a clattering of Hammers do I hear. Daughter, says the old one, you have now quite betray’d yourself; for I thought you had wanted only one Sense, and now I find you want three; for you can neither hear, nor smell, any more than you can see.

Men labour under many Imperfections that no body would take notice of, if themselves were not over-solicitous to conceal.

Source: L'Estrange 133.

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(Not in Mille Fabulae et Una) Perry214