Although with the same mouth he did it:

     Yet this beware of old and young,

     What Esop meant—a

      double tongue

     ;

     Which flatters now with civil clack,

     And slanders soon behind one's back.

      Two

     friends once were walking in sociable chat,

     When a purse one espied on the ground;

     "Oh, see!" said he, (thank my fortune for that,)

     "What a large sum of money I've found!"

     "Nay, do not say

      I

     " said his friend, "for you know

     'Tis but friendship to share it with me;"

     "I share it with you," said the other. "How so?

     He who

      found

     it the owner should be."

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