FAB. CCLXXIII.

The _Fishes_ and the _Frying-Pan_.

A _Cook_ was Frying a Dish of _Live Fish_, and so soon as ever they felt

the Heat of the Pan, There’s no Enduring of This, cry’d one, and so they

all Leapt into the Fire; and instead of Mending the Matter, they were

Worse now then Before.

The MORAL.

_The Remedy is many times Worse than the Disease._

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