I do not say that he sunk under the humiliation; only, don't you remember the fable of the last straw that broke the camel's back? "Divers Women" by Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston

They fare as poorly as the stork did in the fable, whom the fox invited to dinner served on a soup plate. "Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure" by William Thomas Fernie

This fable, like all the rest, was bred of an old, ridiculous and vaine tale, the credite and trueth whereof is not woorth a strawe. "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe" by Richard Hakluyt