Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/127



N tyme paed men preyyd more the folke full of and falhede than the man full of trouthe / the whiche thynge regneth gretely vnto this daye / As we may ee by this prelent fable / Of the man of trouthe and of the man lyar / whiche went to gyder thorugh the countrey / And o longe they wente to gyder by theyr journeyes / that they came in to the prouynce of the apes / And the kynge of thapes made them bothe to be taken and brought before hym   And he beynge in his Royal magete / where as he atte lyke an Emperour / and alle his Apes aboute hym / as the ubgets ben theyr lord / wold haue demaunded / and in dede he demaunded of the lyer / who am I / And the leynge maker and flaterer ayd to hym / thow arte emperour and kynge / the fayret creature that is on earthe /   ¶ And after the kynge demaunded of hym ageyne / who ben thee whiche ben al aboute me / And the lyar anuerd / Syre they ben thy knyghtes & your ubgettes for to kepe