Other Tales/The Spider and the Silkworm

How proudly do we ourselves that our flimsy makings will be edwarded with everlasting ore!

A spider, busied in spreading his web from one side of the room to the other, was asked by a silk-worm, to what end he spent so much time and, in making such a score of lines and wreaths? The spider angrily answered: "Do not disturb me, you heedless thing. I my wits to, and  is the gainstand of my wishes." Swith as he had spoken, a room-maid coming into the room to feed her silk-worms, saw the spider at his work: and with one stroke of her broom swept him away, forspilling at once his arveth and his hopes of breme.

Robert Dodsley