Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/119



Any folke hewe themelf good by theyr wordes whiche are ful of grete fantayes / As reherceth to vs thys fable of a wulf whiche fledde byfore the hunter/ and as he fledde he mette with a heepherd / to whome he aid my frende I praye the that thow telle not to hym that me whiche wey I am gone / & the heep herd aid to hym haue no drede ne fere nothynge / For I halle not accue the / For I halle hewe to hym another way / And as the hunter came / he demaunded of the heepherd yf he had ene the wulf pae / And the hunter both with the heed and of the eyen hewed to the hunter the place where the wulf was / & with the hand and the tongue hewed alle the contrarye / And the hunter vndertood hym wel / But the wulf whiche perceyued wel all the fayned maners of the heepherd fled awey / ¶ And within a lytyl whylle after the heepherd encountred and mette with the wulf / to whome he ayd / paye me of that I