This, I would have you know, is sound advice;
For God hath given you and all your peers
A single mouth, friend, but a pair of ears.
VII
The Miser and the Fisherman. By Ben-Zeeb (1785)[[68-4]].
A miser once into a river fell—
Hard by a boatman heard his frenzied yell;
He swiftly ran and cried, “Give me your hand,
And I shall bring you safely back to land.”
“Give,” moaned the miser, “when I've ne'er before