An _Ant_ formerly a _Man_.
The _Ant_, or _Pismire_, was formerly a _Husband-man_, that secretly
Filched away his Neighbour’s Goods and Corn, and stor’d all up in his Own
Barn. He drew a General Curse upon his Head for’t, and _Jupiter_, as a
Punishment, and for the Credit of Mankind, turn’d him into a _Pismire_;
but this Change of Shape wrought no Alteration, either of Mind, or of
Manners; for he keeps the same Humour and Nature to This very Day.
The MORAL.
_That which Some call Good Husbandry, Industry and Providence, Others
call Raking, Avarice, and Oppression: So that the Vertue and the Vice, in
Many Cases, are hardly Distinguishable but by the Name._