_Industry_ and _Sloth_.
One was asking a Lazy Young Fellow what made him lye in Bed so long?
Why (says he,) I am hearing of Causes every Morning; that is to say, I
have two Lasses at my Bed-side so soon as ever I wake. Their Names are
_Industry_ and _Sloth_; One bids me get up; t’other bids me lye still;
and so they give me Twenty Reasons why I should Rise, and why I should
not. ’Tis the part in the mean time of a Just Judge to hear what can be
said on Both sides; and before the Cause is over, ’tis time to go to
dinner.
The MORAL.
_We spend our Days in Deliberating what to do, and we end them without
coming to any Resolution._