attr. Æsop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables — The Thieves and the Cock (1887)
“ 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 neighbours, you entirely put an end to our business." The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed. ”
