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Rh Heart and Soul in the Pot for Company. He gave it a Viit Every Morning, which it eems was taken Notice of, and Somebody that Obery'd him, found out his Hoard one Night, and Carry'd it away. The Next day he mied it, and ran allmot out of his Wits for the Los of his Gold. Well, (ays a Neighbour to him) And what's All This Rage for? Why you had no Gold at all, and o you Lot None. You did but Fancy all this while that you Had it, and you may e'en as well Fancy again that you have it till,'°Tis but laying a Stone where you layd your Mony, and Fancying That Stone to be your Treaure, and there's your Gold again. You did not Ue it when you Had it; and you do not Want it o long as you Reolve not to Ue it.

One-Eyed-Stag that was affraid of the Huntmen at Land, kept a Watch That Way with T’other Eye, and fed with his Blind Side till toward an Arm of the Sea, where he thought there was no Danger. In this Propect of Security, he was Struck with an Arrow from a Boat, and o Ended his Days with This Lamentation: Here am I detroy'd, ays he, where I reckon’d my Self to be Safe on the One Hand; and No Evil has befal'n me, where I mot Dreaded it, on the Other.