{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/aesop/aes292.htm","path":"cla/aesop/aes292.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/aesop/aes292.htm","text":"SOME THIEVES broke into a house and found nothing but a Cock, whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could. Upon arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: \"Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men. I wake them up in the night to their work.\" \"That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,\" they replied; \"for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.\"\nThe safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.","title":"The Thieves and the Cock","type":"page"}