When princes fall into disaster,
The people do but change their master.
A Shepherd, as he fed his Ass,
Saw soldiers at a distance pass,
And thus his animal address'd:
"'Tis time to fly; come, come, make haste!"
The patient beast says, "Think you, pray,
Two loads upon me they will lay?"
The man says "No." — "Then what care I!
All one to me to stay or fly."
Source: Boothby - Phaedrus 1.15
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