We neglect God in greater Matters, and petition him for Trifles, nay, and take pet at last if we cannot have our Askings.
Source: L'Estrange 139.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
L'Estrange: A Flea and Hercules
There was a Fellow, that upon a Flea-biting call’d out to Hercules for Help. The Flea gets away, and the Man expostulates upon the Matter. Well, Hercules; (says he) you that would not take my part against a sorry Flea, will never stand by me in a time of Need, against a more powerful Enemy.
We neglect God in greater Matters, and petition him for Trifles, nay, and take pet at last if we cannot have our Askings.
Source: L'Estrange 139.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images.
We neglect God in greater Matters, and petition him for Trifles, nay, and take pet at last if we cannot have our Askings.
Source: L'Estrange 139.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images.
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