Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)
49. A THRUSH TAKEN WITH BIRDLIME (Perry
276)
It was the Fortune of a poor Thrush, among other Birds, to be taken with
a Bush of Lime-Twigs, and the miserable Creature reflecting upon it, that
the chief Ingredient in the Birdlime came out of her own Guts: I am not
half so much troubled, says the Thrush, at the Thought of dying, as at
the Fatality of contributing to my own Ruin.
THE MORAL OF THE FOUR FABLES ABOVE. Nothing goes nearer a Man in his
Misfortunes, than to find himself undone by his own folly, or but any
way accessary to his own Ruin.
 L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692. There is a
very nice illustrated edition in the Children's Classics series by Knopf: Sir
Roger L'Estrange. Aesop
- Fables which is available at amazon.com.
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