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L'Estrange version
An ape that found many inconveniences by going bare-arse, went to a fox that had a well-spread, bushy tayle, and begg'd of him only a little piece on't to cover his nakedness: For (says he) you have enough for both, and what needs more than you have occasion for? Well, John (says the fox) be it more, or be it less, you get not one single hair on't; for I would have ye know, sirrah, that the tayle of a fox was never made for the buttocks of an ape.
Moral
Providence has assign'd every creature its station, lot, make and figure; and 'tis not for us to stand correcting the works of an incomprehensible wisdom, and an almighty power.
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