}

When unemploy'd, and poor again I grew;

}

Yea! I was doubly poor, for I was wicked too.

"The mouse that trespass'd and the treasure stole,

Found his lean body fitted to the hole;

Till, having fatted, he was forced to stay,

And, fasting, starve his stolen bulk away.

Ah! worse for me—grown poor, I yet remain

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