A Cat and Venus (An Aesop's Fable)

A young Fellow that was passionately in Love with a Cat, made it his humble Suit to Venus to turn Puss into a Woman. The Transformation was wrought in the twinkling of an Eye, and out she comes, a very bucksome Lass. The doating Sot took her home to his Bed; and bad fair for a Litter of Kittens by her that Night: But as the loving Couple lay snuggling together, a Toy took Venus in the Head, to try if the Cat had changed her Manners with her Shape; and so for Experiment, turn'd a Mouse loose into the Chamber. The Cat, upon this Temptation started out of the Bed, and without any regard to the Marriage-Joys, made a Leap at the Mouse, which Venus took for so high an Affront, that she turn'd the Madam into a Puss again.

MORAL: The extravagant Transports of Love, and the wonderful Force of Nature, are unaccountable; the one carries us out of ourselves, and the other brings us back again.