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A Certain King kept a Fool in his Court, that us'd to write down in a Book all the Follies of the great Men in the Court▪ which Book the King sometimes, when he was dispos'd to be Mer••y, wou'd look into. Now one day after Dinner, the King read∣ing of the Book, found himself in it, with a Story of five thousand Pounds, which he gave a Iew in his Court, to
go to B••rbary and buy Horses with: So the King ask'd his Jester, Why he put him in, Why, says he, for giving your Mon••y to one t••••t you may never see, again: But says the King, What if he should return and bring the Horses, what Folly is it then? Why, if he doe's, replyed the Fool, I'll blot out your Name, and put in his, for a Fool, for not keeping your Money whe•• he had it.