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L'Estrange version
As a lamb was following a goat, up comes a wolfe, wheedling, to get him aside, and make a breakfast of him: Why what a fool art thou, says the wolfe, that may'st have thy belly full of sweet milk at home, to leave thy mother for a nasty stinking goat! Well, says the lamb, but my mother has placed me here for my security; and you'd fain get me into a corner, to worry me. Pray'e, which of the two am I to trust to now?
Moral
Where there's the order of a parent on the one side, and the advice of an ill man, and a professed enemy, on the other, in opposition to that command; disobedience would be undoubtedly the ready way to destruction.
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