FAB. CXCII.

An _Ass_ and the _Frogs_.

An _Ass_ sunk down into a Bog among a Shoale of _Frogs_, with a Burden

of Wood upon his Back, and there he lay, Sighing and Groaning, as if his

Heart would Break: Hark ye Friend (says one of the _Frogs_ to him) if

you make such a Bus’ness of a _Quagmire_, when you are but just fall’n

into’t, what would you do I Wonder, if you had been here as long as we

have been?

The MORAL.

_Custom makes things Familiar and Easy to us; but every thing is Best yet

in its own Element._

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