Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/162

  hete / that alle the goodes owen on the erthe hall peryhe   But byleue not hym / to whome thow hat done ony euylle / ¶ And withoute ayenge ony word / the labourer wente / and thought on the wordes of the Serpent / ¶ And / that the Serpent hadde oo ayd for to deceyue hym / he owed as moche corne and other graynes / as he myght / ¶ And it happed that the Somer next folowynge was uche / as aboue is ayd / Therfor the man was begyled / ¶ For he that ame yere nothynge / ¶ And the next yere after folowynge / the ayd eaon as the poure labourer wente ageyne for to ere and cultyue his ground the erpent awe hym come fro / ¶ And as he came and paed before his repayre he aked of the labourer in uche maner / ¶ My friend whyther goot thow / And the labourer anuered / I goo cultyue and ere my ground / ¶ And thenne the erpent eyd to hym / My Frend owe not to moche ne to lytyl of corne and of other graynes / but owe bytwene bothe / Neuertheles byleue not hym / to the whiche thou hat done euyl   ¶ And I telle  that this yere halle be the most temperate and the moot fertyle of alle maner of corne / that euer thow awet / And whanne the labourer hadde herd thee wordes / he wente his waye / and dyd as the Serpent had ayd /