Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state.

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Title: Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state.
Author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed for Jacob Tonson ... and Awnsham and John Churchill ...,; 1696.
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Subject terms: Church and state -- Great Britain.
Cite this Item: "Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59095.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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1. IN a troubled State save as much for your own as you can. A Dog had been at Market to buy a Shoulder of Mutton; coming home he met two Dogs by the way, that quarrell'd with him; he laid down his Shoulder of Mut∣ton, and fell to fighting with one of them; in the mean time the other Dog fell to eating his Mutton; he seeing that, left the Dog he was fighting with, and fell upon him that was eating; then the other Dog fell to eat; when he per∣ceiv'd there was no remedy, but which of them soever he fought withal, his Mut∣ten was in danger, he thought he would have as much of it as he could, and thereupon gave over fighting, and fell to eating himself.