Two _Laden Asses_.
As Two _Asses_ were Fording a River, the one Laden with _Salt_, the other
with _Sponge_: The _Salt-Ass_ fell down under his Burden, but quickly
got up again, and went on the Merrier for’t. The _Sponge-Ass_ found it
agreed so well with his Companion, that down lies he too, upon the same
Experiment; but the Water that Dissolv’d the _Salt_, made the _Sponge_
Forty times Heavier then it was before; and that which Eas’d the One
Drown’d the Other.
The MORAL.
_The Deceiver may be Deceived: Many People take false Measures for their
own Relief, without Considering that what’s Good in one Case, may be Bad
in another._