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The wolves are prone to play the glutton. / One, at a certain feast, 'tis said, / So stuff'd himself with lamb and mutton, / He seem'd but little short of dead. / Deep in his throat a bone stuck fast. / Well for this wolf, who could not speak, / That soon a stork quite near him pass'd. / By signs invited, with her beak / The bone she drew / With slight ado, / And for this skilful surgery / Demanded, modestly, her fee. / 'Your fee! ' replied the wolf, / In accents rather gruff; / 'And is it not enough / Your neck is safe from such a gulf? / Go, for a wretch ingrate, / Nor tempt again your fate! '[1]
[1]: Phaedrus, I. 8; and Aesop.