_Asses_ to _Jupiter_.
The _Asses_ found themselves once so Intolerably Oppressed with Cruel
Masters, and Heavy Burdens, that they sent their Ambassadors to
_Jupiter_, with a Petition for Redress. _Jupiter_ found the Request
Unreasonable, and so gave them This Answer, That Humane Society could
not be preserved without Carrying Burdens some way or other: So that if
they would but Joyn, and Piss up a River, that the Burdens which they now
Carry’d by Land might be carried by Water, they should be Eas’d of that
Grievance. This set them All a Pissing Immediately, and the Humour is
kept up to This very Day, that whenever _One Ass_ Pisses, the Rest Piss
for Company.
The MORAL.
_’Tis the uttermost Degree of Madness and Folly, to Appeal from
Providence and Nature._