Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/100



He good and wye fader ought to chatye his children in theyr yong age / and not in theyr old age / For thenne hit is moche dyffycyle to make them bowe   As to us reciteth this fable / Of a fader of famylle / whiche had a one / the whiche dyd no thynge that he oughte to haue done / but euer was goynge and playeng in the toune / And the fader for the cryme and myrewle of his one brawled euer and bete his meyny / And ayd to them uche a fable / Of a ploughman or labourer / whiche bond a by the homes to an oxe    The booll wold not be bound / and mote trongly whith his feet after the man / and launched his homes at hym /   ¶ And at the lat whan he was bound / the labourer ayd to them I haue ioyned and bound you bothe to gyder / to thende that ye doo omme labour / But I wyll that the left of yow two / that is to wete the boole / be lerned and corryged of the mote / whiche is the oxe / For I mut ayd the labourer to