Tuesday, October 19, 2010

L'Estrange: An Ass and a Gard'ner.

A Certain Ass that serv'd a Gard'ner, and did a great deal of Work for a very little Meat, fell to his Prayers for Another Master. Jupiter Granted his Request, and turn'd him over to a Potter, where he found Clay and Tile so much a Heavier Burden then Roots and Cabbage, that he went to his Prayers once again for Another Change. His next Master was a Tanner; and there, over and above the Encrease of his Work, the very Trade went against his Stomach: For (says he) I have been only Pinch'd in my Flesh, and Well Rib-Roasted sometimes under my Former Masters; but I'm In now for Skin and All.

A Man that is ever Shifting and Changing, is not, in truth, so Weary of his Condition, as of Himself: And, he that still Carries about him the Plague of a Restless Mind, can never be pleas'd.


Source: L'Estrange 208.
Asinus et Iuppiter

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