_Oxen_ and _Timber_.
Why don’t you Run and Make Hast? cry’d the _Timber_ in the Cart, to the
_Oxen_ that Drew it: The Burthen is not so Heavy sure. Well! (said the
_Oxen_) if You did but know Your Own Fortune, you’d never be so Merry
at Ours. We shall be Discharg’d of our Load so soon as we come to our
Journies End, but You that are Design’d for _Beams_ and _Supporters_,
shall be made to bear till your Hearts break. This Hint brought the
_Timber_ to a Better Understanding of the Case.
The MORAL.
_’Tis Matter of Humanity, Honour, Prudence, and Piety, to be Tender One
of Another; for no Man Living knows his End, and ’tis_ the Evening Crowns
the Day.