Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/136



T not to the yong and lytyl of age to mocke ne corne theyr older / As this fable ayth / of thre lytyl hedgehogges / whiche mocked a grete hedgehogge / whiche fled before a wulf / And whanne he perceyued the cornyng of them / he ayd to them / poure fooles &  ye  not wherfore I fle / For yf ye wyt and knewe wel and paryll / ye hold not mocke of hit / And therfore whan men een that the grete and myghty ben ferdful and / the lae or lytyll oughen not to be aured / For whan the toune is taken and goten by fortune of the Country  is not therfore more / but ouȝt to tremble and hake