Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/154

  certaynly I ee a  comynge  / whiche ledeth with hym many dogges / the whiche as ye wel knowe ben our enemyes / The foxe thenne anuerd to the cat / My godep / thou peket lyke a coward / and as he that is aferd / lete them come and care not thow / And as the dogges perceyued and awe the foxe and the catte / they beganne to renne vpon them / And whanne the foxe awe them come / he ayd to the kat / Flee we my broder / flee we / To whome the kat anuerd / Certaynly godep / therof is none nede / neuer the les the foxe not the cat / but fledde / and ranne as fat as he myght for to aue / And the catte lepte vpon a tree and aued hym elf / ayenge / Now halle we ee / who halle playe bet for to preerue and aue hym elf / And whanne the catte was vpon a tree / he loked aboute hym / and awe how the dogges held the foxe with theyr teethe / to whome he cryed and eyd / O godep and ubtyle foxe / of thy thowand wyles that late thow coudet doo / lete me now ee / and hewe to me one of them / the foxe anuerd not/ but was killed of the dogges the catte was aued / ¶ And therfore the wye ought not to depraye the ymple / For uche uppofeth to be moche wye whiche is a kynd and a very foole