Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/113

  perylle of dethe / He thenne rendred thanke and grace to the oxen / and one of the oxen ayd to hym / It is facyle to cape out of the handes of the blynd but hit is not to cape out of the handes of hym thet eeth wel / For yf oure mayter come hyther whiche hath more than an honderd eyen / Certayn thow arte deed yf he perceyue the   ¶ And yf he ee the not / certaynly thow arte aued / and halt goo forthe on thy waye urely / The mayter within a hort whyle after entryd in to the table / And after he commaunded to vyyte and ee the / whiche was before his oxen / And hym elf went and tated / yf they had ynough of hit / And as he tated thus the heye / he felt the hornes of the herte with his hand / and to hym elf he ayd / what is that that I fele here / and beynge dredeful called alle his eruauntes / and of the manere how the herte was come thyder / And they ayd to hym / my lord I knowe nothynge therof / And the lord was full gladde and made the herte to be taken and layne / and maade a grete feet for to haue ete hym / Therfore it happeth oftyme / that he whiche uppoeth to flee is taken and hold within the lace or nette / For he that fleeth awey is in grete perylle / wherfore men ought wel to them elf to doo uche dede / that they mut nedes flee therfore