Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/138



E that hath no myght ought not to gloryfye ne preye hym elf of nothynge / As reherceth to vs this preente fable of a camell / whiche bare a grete charge or burden It happed that a flee by caue of the camels lepte to the back of the camel / and made her to be of hym all the day    And whanne they had made a grete way / And that the camel came at euen to the / and was put in the table / the flee lepte fro hym to the grounde beyde the foote of the camel / And after ayd to the camel / I haue pyte of the / and am comen doune fro thy back by caue that I wylle nomore greue ne trauaylle the by the berynge of me / And the camel ayd to the flee / I thanke thee / how be it that I am not ore laden of the / And therfore of hym which may neyther helpe ne men nede not make grete etymacion of