A _Man_ that would never Hear _Ill News_.
One came to a Country Grazier, and asked him if he should tell him a
piece of News. Is’t Good or Bad? (says he.) Nay, says t’other, ’tis not
very Good. Pray, says the Grazier, keep it to your self then; and so he
went his way. The Grazier was telling the next day, that the Wolves had
kill’d one of his Bullocks: That’s like enough, says the same Man; for I
saw him wand’ring from the Herd, and I was afraid on’t. I would you had
told me this in time, says the Grazier. Why I came I know not how far
yesterday a-purpose to tell you the Story, and you would not hear on’t.
The MORAL.
_The Man is too Delicate to be Happy, that makes it in his Bargain not to
hear any Thing that may give him a Present Trouble._