_Jupiter_ and _Fraud_.
_Jupiter_ appointed _Mercury_ to make him a Composition of Fraud and
Hypocrisie, and to give every Artificer his Dose on’t. The Medicine
was Prepar’d according to the Bill, and the Proportions duly Observ’d,
and Divided: Only there was a great deal too Much of it made, and the
Overplus remain’d still in the Mortar. Upon Examining the Whole Account,
there was a Mistake it seems, in the Reck’ning; for the _Taylors_ were
forgott’n in the Catalogue: So that _Mercury_, for Brevity sake, gave the
_Taylors_ the Whole Quantity that was Left; and from hence comes the Old
Saying; _There’s Knavery in All Trades, but Most in Taylors_.
The MORAL.
_It is in some sort Natural to be a Knave. We are made so, in the very
Composition of our Flesh and Blood; Only Fraud is call’d Wit in one Case,
Good Husbandry in Another_, &c. _while ’tis the Whole Bus’ness of the
World for One Man to Couzen Another_.