Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ An Ape, with a tayl, would be as scandalous, as a Fox without One. Why should not Any One Creature Envy the Whole, as well as any One Part of Another? And why should not an Ape be as much Troubled that he has no Wings, as that he has no Tayle? ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The Old Moral carries it to Those also that will Part with Nothing to the Poor, even out of their Superfluities: But it seems to be Abominably Wrested, for neither did the One want, nor had the other Any Thing to spare. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Things against Nature are unreasonable on Both Sides. Things Impossible are Ridiculous in the very Proposal; and Things which the One cannot Spare, and the Other will be never the Better for, fall naturally within the Compass of Exceptions. ”
