The Monkey and his Fine Clothes

A huckster had come to town, finely dressed, and a monkey approached him. "Please, sir," said the monkey, "I would like a suit of clothes like yours."
"I can arrange that," said the man, "but I don't want you running away with the clothes, so you'll have to wear this silver chain."
The monkey thought the silver chain looked very fine too and gladly put it on. So, there he was — dressed in velvet with a feather in his cap, but the huckster had him tied with a chain: the monkey had traded his liberty for a fool's clothes.

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Inspired by: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists by Roger L'Estrange, 397.
Notes: This fable is not part of the classical Aesop tradition; find out more here.

Here is an illustration from the version told in the Speculum Sapientiae: