Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/132



He ypocrytes maken to god a berd of trawe / As recyteth to vs this fable / Of a hawke / whiche omtyme / that he wold haue celebrated and holden a or a grete fete / the whiche fete hold be celebred within a Temple / And to this fete and olempnyte he Inuyted and omoned alle the mal byrdes / to the whiche they came / And as they were all come in to the temple / the hauk hette the gate and put them alle to dethe / one after an other /   ¶ And therfore this fable heweth to vs / how we mut kepe our elf fro all them / whiche vnder fayre emynge haue a fals herte / and that  and deceptours of god and of the world