With this answer Jupiter
waxed so angry that he said, since she loved her house so well, she
should never after go from home, but should always afterward bear
her house upon her back wheresoever she went. And so hath she ever
done since, as they say. And at least I know well she doth so now
and hath done so as long as I can remember.
VINCENT: Forsooth, uncle, I should think the tale were not all
feigned, for I think verily that so much of your tale is true!
ANTHONY: AEsop meant by that feigned fable to touch the folly of
such folk as so set their fancy upon some small simple pleasure
that they cannot find it in their heart to forbear it, either for
the pleasure of a better man or for the gaining of a better thing.
For by this foolish froward fashion they sometimes fall in great
disgrace and take by it no little harm.
And surely such Christian folk as, by their foolish affection,
which they have set like the snail upon their own house here on
earth, cannot, for the lothness of leaving that house, find it in
their hearts to go with good will to the great feast that God
prepareth in heaven and of his goodness so graciously calleth them
to--they are, I fear me, unless they mend that mind in time, like
to be served as the snail was, and yet much worse too.
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