_Joy_ and _Sorrow_ are near A-kin.
There pass’d a great many Bitter Words once upon a time betwixt _Joy_
and _Sorrow_; insomuch that they Mov’d the Court upon it by Consent,
and made a Chancery Cause on’t. Upon a _Fair_ and a _Full Hearing_, the
Judge found some colour of Equity on _Both sides_, and would fain have
made ’em _Friends_ again. You should consider, says he, how near y’are
_a-kin_, and what a Scandal ’tis, to have these Heats and Squabbles among
_Relations_: But all this went in at One Ear, and out at _T’other_: So
that when he saw there was no Good to be done, he pass’d this Sentence
upon them, That since they would not go Hand in Hand Amicably of
_Themselves_, they should be _Link’d_ together in a _Chain_; and Each of
them in his Turn should be perpetually Treading upon the _Heel_ of the
_Other_; and not a Pin Matter then which went _Foremost_.
The MORAL.
_No Man is to Presume in Prosperity, or to Despair in Adversity; for Good
and Ill Fortune do as naturally succeed one another, as Day and Night._