_Usurers_ and _Curriers_.
A Parcel of _Curriers_ fell into Company with a Gang of _Usurers_, and
past this Complement upon ’em; What a Blessing they accounted it to meet
with so many worthy Men of their own Trade. One of the _Usurers_ was a
Head Man of the City, it seems, and took it a little in Dudgeon to be
Rank’d Cheek by Joul with a Scab of a _Currier_; and so ask’d one of ’em
what he meant, by saying they were all of a Trade? Nay, I must confess,
says the _Fell-monger_, there is some difference yet betwixt your Trade
and ours; for we deal but in Flaying of _Dead Horses_, and _Asses_, and
the People of your Trade Flay _Living Men_.
The MORAL.
_A Reproof has more Effect when it comes by a Side Wind, then if it were
Levell’d directly at the very Vice or Person._