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Certain As that erv'd a Gard’ner, and did a great deal of Work for a very Little Meat, fell to his Prayers for Another Mater. Jupiter Granted his Requet, and turn'd him over to a Potter, where he found Clay and Tile o much a Heavyer Burden then Roots and Cabbage, that he went to his Prayers once again for Another Change. His next Mater was a Tanner; and there, over and above the Encreae of his Work, the very Trade went againt his Stomach: For (ays he) I have been only Pinch'd in my Fleh, and Well Rib-Roated ometimes under my Former Maters; but I'm In now for Skin and All.

'TIS a High Point of Prudence for any Man to be Content with his Lot. For ‘tis Forty to One that he that Changes his Condition out of a Preent Impatience and Diatisfaction, when he has try’d a New one, Wihes for his Old One again; and Briefly the more we hift the Wore Commonly we Are. This Aries from the Incontancy of our Minds, and One Prayer does but make way for Another. Thoe People, in fine, that