Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/121



Very one oughte to be content of kynde / and of uche good as god hath ente vnto hym / wherof he mut ve lutly / As reherceth this fable of a pecok whiche came to Iuno the goddee / and ayd to her I am heuy and orowful / by caue I can not ynge as wel as the nyghtyngale For euery one mocketh and corneth me / by caue I can not ynge / And Iuno would comforte hym and ayd / thy fayre forme and beaute is fayrer and more worthy and of gretter preyynge than the onge of the nyghtyngale / For thy fethers and thy colour ben replendyhyng as the precious Emerawd And theyr is no byrde lyke to thy fethers ne to thy / ¶ And the pecok ayd thenne to Iuno / All this is nought / I can not ynge / And thenne Iuno ayd ageyne thus to the pecok for to contente hym / This is in the depoycion of the goddes / whiche haue gyuen to eyther of yow one propyrte / and one vertue / uche as it pleayd them / As to the they