Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/128

  kepe your perone / and your Royalme / And thenne the kynge ayd thow arte a good man / I wylle that thow be my grete tyward of my houhold / and that euery one here to the honour and reuerence / And whan the man of trouthe herd alle this he ayd to hym elf / yf this man for to haue made leynges is oo gretely enhaunced / thenne by gretter rayon / I halle be more worhipped and enhaunced / yf I aye trouthe /¶ And after the kynge wold ake the trewe man / and demaunded of hym / who am I / and alle that ben aboute me / And thenne the man of trouthe anuerd thus to hym / thow arte an ape and a bete ryght abhomynable / And alle they whiche ben aboute the are and to the /¶ The kynge thenne commaunded that he hold be broken and toren with teeth and clawes and put alle in to pycees / And therfore it happeth ofte that the lyers and flaterers ben / and the men of trouthe ben et alowe and put aback / For oftyme for to aye trouthe men lee theyre lyues / the whiche thynge is ageynt Iutyce and equyte