Man and Wife are in many Cases the _Ploughman_ here, and his _Ass_; they
think to Ease one another, not considering that what either of them
bears, is a common Burden to both. There was a Fudling Couple that sold
Ale, and their Humour was to Drink Drunk _Hand to Fist_, upon their own
Liquor: They laid down their Club still for what they had, and this they
called _Forcing a Trade_. Now so long as the Tipple was paid for, all
went merrily on they thought, without ever so much as Dreaming that ’twas
at their own Cost. ’Tis much thereabouts betwixt Rulers and Subjects: The
_Prince_ may carry the _Plough_ perhaps, but the weight of both Plough
and Prince lies upon the Peoples Shoulders.
Miscellany Fables.