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The Dancing Monkeys.

A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimicsof men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils; and whenarrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any ofthe courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great applause,till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocketa handful of nuts, and threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys, at thesight of the nuts, forgot their dancing, and became (as indeed theywere) Monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks and tearingtheir robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancingspectacle thus came to an end, amidst the laughter and ridicule of theaudience.

They who assume a character will betray themselves by their actions.

From Aesop's Fables