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Some Men when they do you a Kindness, are presently for Ringing the Obligation in your Ears; others are more modest than this comes to : However, they remember the Favour, and look upon you as their Debtor. A third sort shall be every jot as much Benefactors, and yet scarce know any thing of the matter : These are much like a Vine, which is satisfied by being fruitful in its Kind, and bears a Bunch of Grapes without expecting any Thanks for it. A Fleet Horse or Greyhound, don't use to make a Noise when they have perform'd handsomly, nor a Bee neither when she has made a little Hony : And thus a Man that's rightly Kind, never proclaims a Good Turn, but does another as soon as he can; just like a Vine that bears again the next Season. Now we should imitate Those who are so obliging, as hardly to remember their Beneficence : But you'l say, a Man ought to understand the Quality of his own Actions. 'Tis somewhat natural for One that's Generous, to be Conscious of his Generosity ; yes truly, and to desire the Person oblig'd, should be sensible of it too ; I grant what you say, is in a great measure True : And if you don't take me right, you'l make one of those untoward Benefactors I first mention'd : Indeed, They think their grounds plausible enough; for their Vanity imposes upon them, but if you'l view the case in its true Colours, the privacy of doing a good-turn will never discourage you.