Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/163

  And that yere he gadred moche good / by caue of the good dipoycion of the eaon and tyme / ¶ And on a daye of the ame yere / the erpent awe the ayd labourer comynge fro the heruet / to whome he came ageynte / And ayd / Now aye me my good Frend / Hat thow not fond now grete plente of goodes / as I had told to the byfore   And the labourer anuerd and ayd ye certaynly / wherof I thanke the / ¶ And thenne the Serpent demaunded of hym Remuneracion or reward / ¶ And the labourer thenne demaunded what he wold haue of hym / And the Serpent ayd I ne demaunde of the nothynge / but only that to morowe on the mornyng thow wylt ende me a dyh ful of mylk by om of thy children / ¶ And thenne the erpent hewed to the labourer the hole of his dwellyng / & ayd to hym / telle thy one that he brynge the mylke hyther / but take good heede to that that other whyle I told to the / that thow byleuet not hym / to whome thou hat done euylle / ¶ And after whanne thee thynges were ayd / the labourer wente homeward / and in the morninge next folowynge / he to his one a dyhe full of mylke / whiche he brought to the erpent / and ette the dyhe before the / And anone the erpent came oute and lewe the