Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/124

  there about and put al the heepherds and wyneherds & other whiche kepte beetes all to flyght / he the Corne & many other euyl and grete harme he dyd then aboute / And whanne the folke of the country awe the grete dommage that he dyd to them / they came toward her / prayenge that he wold haue pyteon them / And to them he anuerd in this manere / I am not come hyther to take vengeaunce on them whiche haue had pyte and myerycorde of me / but only on them that wold haue layne me / And for the wycked and euyele folk I recyte this fable / to that they hurte no body / For yf alle the vylaynes hadde hadde pyte / the one as the other of the poure panthere or erpent whiche was traunger and myerable / as moche as he was fallen in to the pytte / the for ayd euylle and dommyge had not come to them