The Charger And The Miller
A Charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill
 instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind
 instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune
 and called to mind his former state, saying, "Ah! Miller, I had indeed
 to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and
 a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed
 me to prefer the mill before the battle." "Forbear," said the Miller
 to him, "harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of
 mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune." 
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