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This second answer provoked the Satyr’s indignation, as
much as the first had kindled his surprise; so, taking the
man by the shoulder, he thrust him out, saying he would
have nothing to do with a wretch who had so vile a quality
as to blow hot and cold with the same mouth.

MORAL.
Double dealing is always detestable. The man that blows
hot and cold at the same time is not worthy to be trusted:
the sooner we part from him the better.

 

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BABLE LXIV.
THE BARLEY-MOW AND THE DUNGHILL.

As ’cross his yard, at early day,

A careful farmer took his way,

He stopped, and leaning on his fork,
Observed the flail’s incessant work.

In thought he measured all his store;
His geese, his hogs, he numbered o’er;
In fancy weighed the fleeces shorn,
And multiplied the next year’s corn.

A Barley-Mow, which stood beside,
Thus to its musing master cried: