A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been
overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it,
ate greedily.  Their feet, however, became so smeared¹ with the
honey that they could not use their wings, nor release
themselves, and were suffocated².  Just as they were expiring,
they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of
a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." 


Pleasure bought with pains, hurts. 

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