the God of Riches, and that he was just come out of the House of a Miser.
Plutus
further told him, that when he was a Boy, he used to declare, that as soon as he came to Age he would distribute Wealth to none but virtuous and just Men; upon which
Jupiter
, considering the pernicious Consequences of such a Resolution, took his Sight away from him, and left him to strole about the World in the Blind Condition wherein
Chremylus
beheld him. With much ado
Chremylus
prevailed upon him to go to his House, where he met an old Woman in a tattered Raiment, who had been his Guest for many Years, and whose Name was
Poverty