A _Merchant_ and a _Seaman_.
A _Merchant_ at Sea was asking the _Ships-Master_, What Death his Father
Dy’d? He told him that his Father, his Grandfather, and his Great
Grandfather were all Drown’d. Well, says the _Merchant_, and are not you
your self afraid of being Drown’d too? No, not I, says the _Skipper_.
But Pray, says t’other again, What Death did _Your_ Father, Grandfather,
and Great Grandfather Dye? Why they Dy’d all in their Beds, says the
_Merchant_. Very good, says the _Skipper_, and why should I be any more
afraid of going to _Sea_, then you are of going to _Bed_?
The MORAL.
_He that troubles his Head with drawing Consequences from meer
Contingencies, shall never be at Rest: And this is further to mind us,
that in an Honest Course of Life, we are not to fear Death._