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As a nightingale was singing in a cage at a window, up comes a bat to her, and asks her why she did not sing in the day, as well as in the night. Why (says the nightingale) I was catch'd singing in the day, and so I took it for a warning. You should have thought of this then, says t'other, before you were taken; for as the case stands now, y'are in no danger to be snapt singing again.
Moral
A wrong reason for the doing of a thing is worse then no reason at all.
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