L'Estrange: Country-Fellow Climbing a Tree.

A Country-Fellow got an unlucky Tumble from a Tree: Why, this 'tis (says a Passenger) when People will be doing things Hand over Head, without either Fear or Wit: Now could I have taught you a way to climb a Thousand Trees, and never hurt yourself with a Fall. Alas, says 'tother, the Advice comes too late for this Bout, but let's have it however; for a body may be the better for't another time. Why then (says the Traveller,) You must take care for the future, whenever you Climb another Tree, that you come no faster down than you went up.

Do nothing Rashly.

Source: L'Estrange 369.

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