Moral and political fables, ancient and modern done into measured prose intermixed with ryme by Dr. Walter Pope.
Pope, Walter, d. 1714.
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FAB. LXXXIII. The Fortune-teller.
ONE, who pretended skill in Conjuring,
Was telling Fortunes, in a Market-place
Amongst a great Crowd of admiring Fools,
To whom a Messenger drew near, and said,
Is this a time to entertain the Mob?
Your House is broken up, your Goods are stoln,
There's nothing left you but the naked Walls.
Hearing this News, in hast he left the Crowd,
And went to see what loss he had sustaind.
As he returnd, there met him on the way
A witty Fellow, who thus to him said,
Can you, who know not what is done at home,
At a great distance, foretel things to come?
The MORAL.
He is not Wise, who is not so to himself.
