A _Consultation_ about _Securing_ a _Town_.
There was a Council of Mechanicks call’d to Advise about the Fortifying
of a City; a _Bricklayer_ was for Walling it with _Stone_; a _Carpenter_
was of Opinion, that _Timber_ would be worth Forty on’t: And after them,
up starts a _Currier_. Gentlemen, says he, when y’ave said all that can
be said, there’s nothing in the World like Leather.
The MORAL.
_Charity begins at Home, they say, and ’tis every Man’s Bus’ness in the
First Place to look to his own Mother’s Child._