Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/168

  halle rendre yow in as good helthe / as euer ye were / ¶ And whanne he had ayd thee wordes / he departed fro the lyon and toke his / but neuer he had uppoed / that the foxe had herd hym / but he had / For he was within a  to the  of the lyon / where he herd alle the propoycion of the wulf / to the whiche he dyd put remedye and grete prouyyon / For as oone as the wulf was departed fro the lyon / the foxe wente in to the feldes / And in a hyghe way he fond a grete donghyll / within the whiche he put hym elf / ¶ And as he uppofed after his to be  and dagged ynough / came thus in to the pytte of the lyon / the whiche he alewed as he oughte to haue done to his lord / ayenge to hym in this manere / Syre kynge god good helthe / And the lyon anuerd to hym God alewe the wete frend / come nyghe me and kye me / & after I halle telle to the omme ecrete / whiche I wylle not that euery man knowe / to whome the foxe ayd in this maner yre kynge be not dipleayd / for I am fowle arayed and al to dagged / by caue of the grete way / whiche I haue gone / ekynge al aboute omme good medycyne for you / wherfore it behoueth not me / for to be o nyghe your perone   For the tenche of the donge myght