If so to withdraw, I should think would be best;"

     "Oh, yes! let us break up the firm," said the rest;

     And so:—for you may not have heard of it yet,—

     It was quickly dissolved, though not in

      the gazette

     .

     Some folks in their dealings, like him in the fable,

     Will take others' shares, if they think they are able;

     But let them not wonder who act in this way,

     If they find none will join them in business or play.

      A lion

     , with the heat oppress'd,

     One day composed himself to rest;

     But whilst he dozed, as he intended,

     A mouse his royal back ascended;

     Nor thought of harm as Esop tells,

     Mistaking him for something else,

     And travelled over him, and round him,

     And might have left him as he found him,

     Had he not, tremble when you hear,

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