the
Greek
Comedian. It seems originally designed as a Satyr upon the Rich, though, in some Parts of it, 'tis like the foregoing Discourse, a kind of Comparison between Wealth and Poverty.
Chremylus
, who was an old and a good Man, and withal exceeding Poor, being de
Sir
ous to leave some Riches to his Son, consults the Oracle of
Apollo
upon the Subject. The Oracle bids him follow the first Man he should see upon his going out of the Temple. The Person he chanced to see was to Appearance an old sordid blind Man, but upon his following him from Place to Place, he at last found by his own Confession, that he was
Plutus