A _Hen_ and _Golden Eggs_.
A Certain Good Woman had a Hen, that Laid her Golden Eggs, which could
not be, she thought, without a Mine in the Belly of Her. Upon This
Presumption, she Cut her up to Search for Hidden Treasure: But upon the
Dissection found her just like _Other Hens_, and that the Hope of Getting
more had betray’d her to the Loss of what she had in Possession.
The MORAL.
_This is the Fate, Folly and Mischief of Vain Desires, and of an
Immoderate Love of Riches. Content wants Nothing, and Covetousness brings
Beggery._