An _Ass_ Carrying an _Image_.
As an Ass was Carrying an Image in Procession, the People fell everywhere
down upon their Knees before him. This Silly Animal fancy’d that they
Worship’d _Him_ all this while; ’till One Rounded him in the Ear; and
told him, _Friend_, says he, _You are the very same Ass with this Burden
upon your Back, that you were before you took it up; and ’tis not the_
Brute _they Bowe to, but the_ Image.
The MORAL.
_A Publick Character is never the less to be Reverenc’d, because a
Coxcomb perhaps may Carry it; nor that Coxcomb one jot the more, save
only for the sake of his Office._