There is an ancient saying—Idleness
Is the world's curse: and I have heard a story
Out of old time, instructive. King Matthew once, half-tipsy, put three fellows—
Three idle fellows—in a house to fatten;
And fate, or forethought, set the house on fire.
"Ah! see, the house is burning!" cried the first;
"If the King want us," said the second knave,
"Why he will send and save us."
In a rage, "Your tongue is very glib," exclaimed the third;
And the house went on burning, and they perish'd. O there are many idle dogs like these—
Many who open wide their lazy mouths,
And think that roasted ortolans will enter.
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