An Ass sunk down into a Bog among a Shoal of Frogs, with a Burden of Wood upon his Back, and there he lay, sighing and groaning, as if his Heart would break: Hark ye Friend (says one of the Frogs to him, if you make such a Bus'ness of a Quagmire, when you are but just fall'n into't, what would you do I wonder, if you had been here as long as we have been?
Custom makes Things familiar and easy to us; but everything is best yet in its own Element.Source:
L'Estrange 192.
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