L'Estrange: The Fishes and the Frying-Pan.
A Cook was frying a Dish of Live Fish, and so soon as ever they felt the Heat of the Pan; There's no enduring of This, cry'd one, and so they all leapt into the Fire; and instead of mending the Matter, they were worse now than before.
The Remedy is many times worse than the Disease.Source:
L'Estrange 273.
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