L'Estrange: Wasps in a Honey Pot

There was a whole swarm of Wasps got into a Honey-Pot, and there they cloy’d and clamm’d themselves, till there was not getting out again; which brought them to understand in the Conclusion, that they had paid dear for their Sweetmeats.

Loose Pleasures become necessary to us by the frequent Use of them, and when they come once to be habitual, there’s no getting clear again.

Source: L'Estrange 127.

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Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images. this is a version with flies, but I figure it would work for L'Estrange's wasps, too!

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