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116 to hir neat, & awe (hauing a verie good eye) hir children in a hundreth peeces, hee pitifully lamented, the teares trickling downe hir cheekes. The little beat that in a hole toode to ee the ende of this tragedy, eing the Eagle take on thus heauily, aid vnto hir: nay, nay, it makes no matter, thou art euen well erued: thou wouldet not let my Leueret alone, and with that he hronke into his hole, that the deuill himelfe could not finde him out. So that my good Maiter Ae and deare brother, a man mut beware of will: for all thynges may be brought to pae, and nothing is hard to him that determineth to doe it. Well yet heare another and then woonder as thou wilt. It booteth not to triue agaynt the treame.

There was a Rauen that in the top of a great old tree, in a hollow place of the ame (where none could find out hir neaft) did euer lay hir egges. Beholde there came out of a hole at the roote of the old rotten tree a Snake, which leape by leape got vp to the toppe of the tree, and ucked thee egges when they were newly layde: and woore than that, what prouiion of vitailes oever the Rauen had brought to hir neat, the Snake till deuoured, o that the pore Rauen could neuer haue hir