Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/169

  wel greue you for the grete ekenee that ye haue / but dere yre / yf hit pleae to the or euer I come nerer to your Royal magete I halle goo bathe me and make me fayre and clene / And thenne I hall come ageyne to preente my elf byfore thy noble perone / And notwithtondynge al this / alo I goo / pleae the to  & knowe that I come from alle the contrees here aboute / and from alle the Royalmes adiacent to this prouynce / for to ee yf I coude fynde omme good medycyn and nedeful to thy ikenee / and for to recouere thy helthe / but certaynly I haue foūd no better coūceylle than the coūceylle of an aūcycent greke with a grete & long berd / a man of grete wydom / age & worthy to be prayed / the whiche ayd to me / how in this prouynce is a wulf withoute taylle / the whiche hath lot his taylle by the vertue of the grete medycyn whiche is within hym / For the whiche thynge it is nedeful and expedyent / that ye doo make this wulf to come to yow for the recoueraunce of the helthe of your fayr and noble body / And whan he is come and calle hym to counceylle / ayenge that it halle be for his grete worhip & proffite / & as he hal be nyghe vnto yow cat on hym your armed feet / and as wetely as ye maye pulle the kynne fro the body of hym & kepe it /