The
Brass-Pot
,
and
Stone-Jugg
.
A
FABLE
.
A
Brazen
Pot
,
by
scouring
vext
,
With
Beef
and
Pudding
still
perplext
,
Resolv'd
t'
attempt
a
nobler
Life
,
Urging
the
Jugg
to
share
the
Strife
:
Brother
,
quoth
he
,
(
Love
to
endear
)
Why
shou'd
We
Two
continue
here
,
To
serve
and
cook
such
homely
Cheer
?
Who
tho'
we
move
with
awkward
pace
,
Your
stony
Bowels
,
and
my
Face
,
Abroad
can't
miss
of
Wealth
and
Place
.
Then
let
us
instantly
be
going
,
And
see
what
in
the
World
is
Doing
.
The
bloated
Jugg
,
supine
and
lazy
,
Who
made
no
Wish
,
but
to
be
easy
,
Nor
,
like
it's
Owner
,
e'er
did
think
Of
ought
,
but
to
be
fill'd
with
Drink
;
Yet
something
mov'd
by
this
fine
Story
,
And
frothing
higher
with
Vain-glory
,
Reply'd
,
he
never
wanted
Metal
,
But
had
not
Sides
,
like
sturdy
Kettle
,
That
in
a
Croud
cou'd
shove
and
bustle
,
And
to
Preferment
bear
the
Justle
;
When
the
first
Knock
would
break
His
Measures
,
And
stop
his
Rise
to
Place
and
Treasures
.
Sure
(
quoth
the
Pot
)
thy
Scull
is
thicker
,
Than
ever
was
thy
muddiest
Liquor
:
Go
I
not
with
thee
,
for
thy
Guard
,
To
take
off
Blows
,
and
Dangers
ward
?
And
hast
thou
never
heard
,
that
Cully
Is
borne
thro'
all
by
daring
Bully
?
Your
self
(
reply'd
the
Drink-conveigher
)
May
be
my
Ruin
and
Betrayer
:
A
Superiority
you
boast
,
And
dress
the
Meat
,
I
but
the
Toast
:
Than
mine
your
Constitution's
stronger
,
And
in
Fatigues
can
hold
out
longer
;
And
shou'd
one
Bang
from
you
be
taken
,
I
into
Nothing
shou'd
be
shaken
.
A
d'autre
cry'd
the
Pot
in
scorn
,
Dost
think
,
there's
such
a
Villain
born
,
That
,
when
he
proffers
Aid
and
Shelter
,
Will
rudely
sall
to
Helter-Skelter
?
No
more
,
but
follow
to
the
Road
,
Where
Each
now
drags
his
pond'rous
Load
,
And
up
the
Hill
were
almost
clamber'd
,
When
(
may
it
ever
be
remember'd
!
)
Down
rolls
the
Jugg
,
and
after
rattles
The
most
perfidious
of
all
Kettles
;
At
every
Molehill
gives
a
Jump
,
Nor
rests
,
till
by
obdurate
Thump
,
The
Pot
of
Stone
,
to
shivers
broken
,
Sends
each
misguided
Fool
a
Token
:
To
show
them
,
by
this
fatal
Test
,
That
Equal
Company
is
best
,
Where
none
Oppress
,
nor
are
Opprest
.