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A countrieman coming to Paris with his ass loaded, the beast stuck in a dirty place of the road; wherefore the peasant struck him with a stick to make him rise: till at last a courtier passing by, said, How now villain, art thou not ashamed to abuse
thy beast so? If thou strikest him again, I will give thee an hundred blows with the same cudgel. The poor man ignorant what to do, pull'd off his hat till the Gentleman was past, and then began to beat his beast worse than before; saying, How now mine ass, who would have thought that thou hadst had friends at court?