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202 to know how This came About. Why ays he, My Damn’d Fortune would have it o. Fortune happen’d to be at That Time within Hearing, and told him in his Ear, that he was an Arrogant, Ungrateful Clown; to Charge Her with All the Evil that Befell him, and to take the Good to Himelf.

S a Labourer was at his Work a Digging, he Chops his Spade upon a Pot of Money; Takes it up, Blees the Place where he found it, and away he goes with his Treaure. It o fell out, that Fortune Saw and Heard All that Pat, and o he call’d out to him upon the Way. Heark ye Friend, ays he; You are very Thankful, I perceive, to the Place where you found This Money; but 'tis the Jade Fortune, I warrant ye, that's to be Claw'd away for't: if you hould happen to Loe it again. Pray tell me now why hould not you Thank Fortune for the One, as well as Cure her for the Other.

IS a Common Practice, when People draw Michiefs upon their Own Heads, to cry, the Devil's in't, and the Devil's in’t. Now the Devil happen'd to py an Old Woman upon an Apple-Tree. Look ye (ays he) You hall ee that Beldam Catch a Fall there by and by, and Break her Bones, and then ay 'twas all long of me. Pray Good People will you bear me Witnes, that I was None of her Advier. The Woman got a Tumble, as the Devil aid he would, and there was he at it. The Devil Ought her a Shame, and the Devil put her upon't: But the Devil Clear’d himelf by ufficient Evidence that he had no Hand in’t at all.