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L'Estrange version
As an ass with a gall'd back was feeding in a meadow, a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore. The ass fell a frisking and braying upon't, which set a groom that saw it at a distance, a laughing at it. Well! (says a wolfe that was passing by) to see the injustice of the world now! A poor wolfe in that ravens place, would have been persecuted, and hunted to death presently; and 'tis made only a laughing-matter, for a raven to do the same thing would have cost a wolfe his life.
Moral
One man may better steal a horse, then another look over the hedge.
[Gall = Chafe severely (as used in this fable)]
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