Many People have fair Opportunities put into their Hands, and want Wit
to make Use of them. Here was a silly Controversie, as sillily Manag’d,
and Two Quarrelsom Fools out-witted by an _Ass_. Why did they not keep
him when they had him sure? Or why did they not Compound the matter,
and Divide, when the one had no more right to him than the other? But
this of the _Travellers_ and the _Ass_ is a common Case, and a Frivolous
Contentious Law-Suit is the Moral of it; when Plaintiff and Defendant are
Worrying one another about the Title, till they have spent the Estate. So
the _Travellers_ fought here for an _Ass_, and the _Ass_ ran away with
the _Stakes_.