met with the Utopian Philoſopher, or the wiſe Man of the Mountain, as he is called, and thought in him he had found the Friend he wanted; for though he often pretended to be in Diſtreſs, and abandoned to the Frowns of Fortune, this Man always relieved him, and with ſuch Chearfulneſs and Sincerity, that concluding he had found out the only Man to whom be ought to open both his Purſe and his Heart, he let him ſo far into his Secrets, as to deſire his Aſſiſtance in hiding a large Sum of Money, which he wanted to conceal, leſt the Prince of the Country, who was abſolute, mould, by the Advice of his wicked Miniſter, put him to Death for his Gold. The two Philoſophers met and hid the Money, which the Stranger, after ſome Days, went to ſee, but found it gone. How was he ſtruck, to the Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and who had relieved him in his Diſtreſs, could not withſtand this Temptation, but broke through the shared Bonds of Friendſhip, and turned even
