An _Ass_ to _Jupiter_.
A Certain _Ass_ that serv’d a Gard’ner, and did a great deal of Work for
a very little Meat, fell to his Prayers for _Another Master_. _Jupiter_
Granted his Request, and turn’d him over to a _Potter_, where he found
Clay and Tile so much a Heavier Burden then Roots and Cabbage, that he
went to Prayers once again for Another Change. His next Master was a
Tanner; and there, over and above the Encrease of his Work, the very
Trade went against his Stomach: For (says he) I have been only Pinch’d in
my Flesh, and Well Rib-Roasted sometimes under my Former Masters; but I’m
In now for Skin and All.
The MORAL.
_A Man that is ever Shifting and Changing, is not, in truth, so Weary of
his Condition, as of Himself; And he that still Carries about him the
Plague of a Restless Mind, can never be pleas’d._