A Fox and a Crocodile
There happen'd a Contest betwixt a Fox and a Crocodile, upon the Point of
Blood and Extraction. The Crocodile amplify'd wonderfully upon his family,
for the Credit of his Ancestors. Friend (says the Fox, smiling upon't) there
will need to no Herald to prove your Gentility; for you carry the marks
of your Original in your very Skin.
Great Boasters and Lyars have the Fortune still some way or other to disprove
themselves.