A _Corrupt Officer_.
A Certain Governor of a Province that had a long time Pill’d, and
Oppressed the People under his Charge, was call’d to Account in the
Conclusion for the Receiving of Bribes; and sentenc’d to Refund what he
had Wrongfully Taken. He came as Unwillingly to the Point, as a Bear to
the Stake, which gave Occasion to somebodies saying, that it was with
this Man and his Mony, as it is with Women and their Children. He was
well enough pleas’d in the Getting of it; but it went to the very Heart
of him when he Parted with it.
The MORAL.
_Great Officers are but like Sponges; they Suck till they are Full, and
when they come once to be Squeez’d, the very Hearts Blood of them comes
away with their Mony._