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Townsend version
A fowler caught a Partridge and was about to kill it. The Partridge earnestly begged him to spare his life, saying, "Pray, master, permit me to live and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for your mercy to me." The Fowler replied, "I shall now with less scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost of betraying your friends and relations."
L'Estrange version
A fowler had taken a partridge, and the bird offer'd her self to decoy as many of her companions into the snare as she could, upon condition that he would but give her quarter. No, says he, you shall dye the rather for that very reason, because you would be so base as to betray your friends to save your self.
Moral
Of all scandalous and lewd offices, that of a traytor is certainly the basest; for it undermines the very foundations of society.
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