A good Boy will make a good Man.
Honour your Parents, and the World will honour you.
[43] Love your Friends, and your Friends will love you.
He that swims in Sin, will sink in Sorrow.
Learn to live, as you would wish to die.
As you expect all Men should deal by you:
So deal by them, and give each Man his Due.
As we were returning Home, we saw a Gentleman, who was very ill, sitting under a shady Tree at the Corner of his Rookery. Though ill, he began to joke with Little Margery, and said, laughingly, so, Goody Two-Shoes, they tell me you are a cunning little Baggage; pray, can you tell me what I shall do to get well? Yes, Sir, says she, go to Bed when [44]your Rooks do. You see they are going to Rest already:
Do you so likewise, and get up with them in the morning; earn, as they do, every Day what you eat, and eat and drink no more than you earn; and you'll get Health and keep it. What should induce the Rooks to frequent Gentlemens Houses only, but to tell them how to lead a [45]prudent Life? They never build over Cottages or Farm-houses, because they see, that these People know how to live without their Admonition.
Thus Health and Wit you may improve,
Taught by the Tenants of the Grove.
The Gentleman laughing gave Margery Sixpence; and told her she was a sensible Hussey.
C H A P. VI.
How the whole Parish was frighted.
Who does not know Lady Ducklington, or who does not know that she was buried at this Parish Church?