Once there was a Traveller who was tired from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.
Just as he was about to fall into the water,
Dame Fortune, it is said, appeared to him and
waking him from his slumber thus addressed him:
"Good Sir, pray wake up: for if you fall into
the well, the blame will be thrown on me, and I
shall get an ill name among mortals; for I find
that men are sure to impute their calamities to
me, however much by their own folly they have
really brought them on themselves."
Moral: Everyone is more or less master
of his own fate.