A _Cock_ and a _Diamond_.
As a _Cock_ was turning up a Dunghill, he spy’d a _Diamond_. Well (says
he to himself) this sparkling Foolery now to a Lapidary in my place,
would have been the Making of him; but as to any Use or Purpose of mine,
a _Barley-Corn_ had been worth Forty on’t.
The MORAL.
_He that’s Industrious in an Honest Calling, shall never fail of a
Blessing. ’Tis the part of a Wise Man to Prefer Things Necessary before
Matters of Curiosity, Ornament, or Pleasure._