Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/142



One ought to be prowd ageynt his lord / but oughte to humble hym elf toward hym / As this fable reherceth to vs of a grete tre / whiche wold neuer bowe for none wynd / And a whiche was at his foote bowed hym elf as moche as the wynd wold / And the tree ayd to hym / why dot thow not abyde tylle as I doo / And the reed anuerd / I haue not the myght whiche thow hat / And the tree ayd to the reed prowdly / than haue I more trengthe / than thow / And after came a grete wynde / whiche threwe doune to the ground the ayd grete tree / and the reed abode in his owne beynge / For the prowde hall be allway humbled   And the meke and hūble halle be enhaunced / For the roote of alle vertue is obedynce and humylyte