A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. Please come up and taste this delicious drink with me. We bow before them and so we do not break. These, Juno, whose favorite he was, granted to him one day when he begged her for a train of feathers to distinguish him from the other birds. Do not let anyone in, unless he gives you this password: 'Down with the Wolf and all his race!' Try some and see. So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew. The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree. Now the Mice kept more strictly at home than ever. When that Lion leaves, I'll teach you a lesson you won't forget.
It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.