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( 8 ) Moral on the foregoing dialogue.

HE prudent maſter, who allows His ſervants what is fitting, Shews by his conduct that he knows, Hard work requires good eating. The maſter ſeldom thrives in trade, Who keeps a ſneaking table, Apprentices are thereby made Leſs willing and leſs able. Whilſt thoſe who feed’em with good fare, By ſervants are befrinded. Have all their work diſpaſhed with care, And in due ſeaſon ended. But where a wife ſhall rule the roaſt, Whoſe temper’s too penurious, What ſhe believes ſhe ſaves, is loſt, And only proves injurious No ſervants, in revenge, will waſte The food that they’re in love of, But into holes will ſlily caſt The meat they don't approve of. Beſides, he gains an honeſt name, Who makes his ſervants eaſy, If you are kind they’ll be the ſame, And ſtrive the more to pleaſe ye.