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The great danger of Law-suits. [ 819]
IT is the Relation of a Gentleman, that seeing a Ier-falcon let fly at a He••••••,* 1.1 he ob∣served with what clamour the Heron entertained the sight and approach of the Hawke, and with what winding shift he strove to get above her, labouring even by ••emuting his enemies feathers to make her flag-wing••d, and so escape; but at last when they must needs come to a necessitated encounter, resuming courage out of ••e∣cessity, he turn'd face against her, and striking the Hawke through the gorge, both fell down dead together. This fight doth much resemble some great suit in Law, where one trusting more to his Cause's Potency, than his Cause's equity, endeavours to disinherit his stubborn Neighbour by colourable title to his Land;* 1.2 Here you may hear the clamourous obloquies of the wronged, and fee the many turnings, and winding Meanders of the Law,* 1.3 sought out to get above his Adversary; And then when the issue must come to tryal, oftentimes in the grapple they both sink to beg∣gery, whilst lawfully they seek to get one above the other.