attr. Æsop, Three Hundred Aesop's Fables — The Ass and the Old Shepherd (1887)
“ Do you think it likely the conqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?" "No," rejoined the Shepherd. "Then," said the Ass, "as long as I carry the panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?" In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master. ”
