Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/157



En ought not to byleue lyghtly the counceylle of hym to whome men purpoen to / As ye maye ee by this fable / Of a wulf whiche omtyme mette with an Ae / to the whiche he ayd / My broder I am l)ongry / wherfor I mut nedes ete / ¶ And thenne the Ae anuerd ryght benyngly / My lord / with me thow mayt doo what omeuer thow wylt / For yf thow etet me / thow halt putte me oute of grete payne / But I preye the yf thow wylt ete me / that thou  to ete me oute of the way / For wel thow knowet that I brynge home the rayyns fro the vyne / and fro the feldes home the corne / ¶ Alo wel thow knowet / that I  home wood fro the foret / And whanne my maiter wel do buyld omme edyffyce / I mut go fetche the tones from the montayne / And at the other parte I bere the corne vnto the mylle / And after I bere home the floure / And for alle hort concluions I was borne in a curyd houre / For to alle payne and to alle grete labours I am ubmytted &