Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/172



T is folye to more / than men ought to doo / For a foole thynketh · hit emeth to hym that halle be / As it appiereth by this fable / of a wulf / whiche omtyme roe erly in a mornynge / And after that he was ryen vp fro his bedde / as he hym elf / made a grete fart / and beganne to aye to hym elf / bleed be god therfore / thee good / this daye / I halle be wel fortunate and happy / as myn ers yngeth to me / And thenne he departed from his / and biganne to walke and goo / & as he wente on his way he fonde a ak ful of talowe / whiche a woman had lete falle / and with his foote he torned hit vpo doune / and ayd to hym / I halle not ete the / For thow holdet hurte my tendre tomak / and more is / I hall this day haue better mete / and more delycious / For well I knowe this by myn ers/ whiche dyd ynge it to me / And ayenge thee wordes went his way / And