How to Get Riches

         PRECEPT I.

In Things of moment, on thy self depend,

Nor trust too far thy Servant or thy Friend:

With private Views, thy Friend may promise fair,

And Servants very seldom prove sincere.

       PRECEPT II.

What can be done, with Care perform to Day,

Dangers unthought-of will attend Delay;

Your distant Prospects all precarious are,

And Fortune is as fickle as she’s fair.

       PRECEPT III.

Nor trivial Loss, nor trivial Gain despise;

Molehills, if often heap’d, to Mountains rise:

Weigh every small Expence, and nothing waste,

Farthings long sav’d, amount to Pounds at last.