A _Blinkard_ Buying of _Wheat_.
Upon a time when there was an Extreme Scarcity of Corn in _Florence_, a
Poor Wretch with _One Eye_, was sent to the Market with a great Sack, to
Buy such a Provision of Wheat: He goes to his Corn-Merchant, and asks
him the Price of so many Measures. Why, says he, one of these Measures
is as much as one of your Eyes is worth; (meaning, that Wheat was very
Dear.) Why then cries an Unlucky Wag, that stood by there, A less Bag
methinks might have serv’d your Turn, for One of those Measures is as
much as you are able to pay for.
The MORAL.
_A Jeering Buffon is the common Enemy of Mankind._