A _Cockle_ and _Jupiter_.
In Old Time, when _Jupiter_ was in the Humour of Granting Petitions, a
_Cockle_ made it his Request, that his House and his Body might be All
of a Piece. _Jupiter_ made him Answer, that it would be a Burden to him
instead of a Favour. Yes, says the _Cockle_, but it will be such a Burden
as I had rather Bear, then lie Expos’d to Ill Neighbours.
The MORAL.
_Impertinent Visits are the Plague of a Sober Man’s Life, and therefore
’tis a Happy thing when a Body may be at Home, or Not at Home, as he
Pleases._