uSOPS FABLES. At Lift the Shepherd Handing on a Hill, Beheld the Havock his own Hands had made. And with a deep fetcht Sigh, thus weeping faid ; Where is the Mad, and Akorns that did fill My brifly Cattelftill? Ill-gotten Wealthy ah me ! is ill imploy'd., And I am poorer the whole Wood deftroy'd. Where fhall my Kids browfe ? How fhall I maintain My board with Nuts, and blufhing Fruit again ? Thus Avarice brings People, and Kings, Their ruinings. Thus Grants of Princes have themfeivs brought low, And oft o'r-throw Them, by their Fall on whom they did beftow. Moral. ions put into a mad Mans Hands3 May be tbefirft the Error underjiands: But Kings that Subje&s with their S&ordintrujl, If they dofitfer}feems not much nnjufi. Fab.