L'Estrange: A Boar and a Fox.

As a Boar was whetting his Teeth against a Tree, up comes a Fox to him. Pray, what do you mean by That? (says he) for I see no occasion for't. Well, says the Boar, but I do; for when I come once to be set upon, 'twill be too late for me to be Whetting when I should be Fighting.

No Man, or State can be safe in Peace, that is no always in readiness to encounter an Enemy in Case of War.

Source: L'Estrange 319.

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