Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/111



any one ben trauaylled after theyr dethe / wherfore men ought not to deyre the dethe / As reherceth Eope by this fable / Of a marchaunt whiche an ae laden vnto the market / And for to be the ooner at the market / he bete his ae / and ore prycked hym / wherfore the poure ae wyhed & deyred his owne deth / to hym that after his dethe he hold be in rete / And after that he had be wel bete and chaced he deyde / And his mayter made hym to be / and of his kynne he dyd doo make whiche euer bete / And thus for what payne that men may haue durynge his lyf / he ought not to deyre and whyhe his dethe / For many one ben / whiche haue grete payne in this world that hall haue a gretter in the other world / For the man hath no rete for the dethe but for his merytes