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[These versions are not exactly the same fable, but are similar enough to be included on the same page.]
Townsend version
An ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. The Ass said, "Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement."
L'Estrange version (An Asse and A Whelp)
A gentleman had got a favourite spaniel, that would be still toying, and leaping upon him, licking his cheeks, and playing a thousand pretty gambles, which the master was well enough pleas'd withall. This wanton humour succeeded so well with the puppy, that an asse in the house would needs go the same gamesom way to work, to curry favour for himself too; but he was quickly given to understand, with a good cudgel, the difference betwixt the one play-fellow and the other.
Moral
People that live by example, should do well to look very narrowly into the force and authority of the president, without saying, or doing things at a venture: for that may become one man, which would be absolutely intolerable in another, under differing circumstances.
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