In Roger L'Estrange's relation of "The Dog and a Shadow", "He Chops at the Shadow and Loses the Substance"; Brooke Boothby, in his translation  of the fables of Phaedrus, closes the poem of "The Dog and his Shadow" with the line "And shade and substance both were flown".
Roger L'Estrange's account of "The Dog and a Shadow" is related to "He Chops at the Shadow and Loses the Substance"; Brooke Boothby, in his translation of Phaedrus' fables, concludes the poem "The Dog and his Shadow" with the line "And shade and substance both were flown".