Moral. ‘Tis the Fate of All Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
[more info; you can read L'Estrange's Reflexion at the online book.]
And here is an illustration by Francis Barlow:
A Frog and a Mouse
004. A Frog and a Mouse. There fell out a Bloody Quarrel once betwixt the Frogs and the Mice, about the Sovereignty of the Fenns; and whilst Two of their Companions were Disputing it at Swords Point, down comes a Kite Powdering upon them in the Interim, and Gobbles up both together, to Part the Fray.
Moral. ‘Tis the Fate of All Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
[more info; you can read L'Estrange's Reflexion at the online book.]
And here is an illustration by Francis Barlow:
Moral. ‘Tis the Fate of All Gotham Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.
[more info; you can read L'Estrange's Reflexion at the online book.]
And here is an illustration by Francis Barlow:
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