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L'Estrange version
As a wolfe and a Iyon were abroad upon adventure together, Heark, (says the wolfe) don't you hear the bleating of sheep? My life for yours sir, I'le go fetch ye a purchase. Away he goes, and follows his eare, till he came just under the sheepfold: but it was so well fortify'd, and the dogs asleep so near it, that back he comes sneaking to the Iyon again, and tells him, There are sheep yonder (says he) 'tis true, but they are as lean as carrion, and we had e'en as good let 'em alone 'till they have more flesh on their backs.
Moral
'Tis matter of skill and address, when a man cannot honestly compass what he would be at, to appear easy and indifferent upon all repulses and disappointments.
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