An ass1, having put on the lion's skin, roamed about in the forestand amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he metin his wanderings. At last coming upon a fox, he tried tofrighten him also, but the fox no sooner heard the sound of hisvoice than he exclaimed, "I might possibly have been frightenedmyself, if I had not heard your bray2." 
Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away. 