Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/173

   after he fond a grete pyece of bakon wel alted / the whiche he tourned and retourned vp odoune / And whan he had torned and returned hit longe / ynough / he ayd / I not to ete of this mete / by caue that hit hold caue me for to drynke moche / for it is to alte   And as myn ers onge to me lat I halle ete this ame day better and more delycious mete / ¶ And thenne he beganne to walke ferther / And as he entryd in to a fayr medowe / he awe a / and her yong foole with her / and ayd to hym elf alone / I rendre thankes and graces to the goddes of the godes that they end me / For wel I wyt and was certayne / that this daye I hold fynde omme precious mete / And thenne he came the mare and ayd to her / Certaynly my I halle ete thy child / And the mare anuerd to hym / My broder doo what omeuer hit halle pleae / But fyrt I praye the that one playyre thow wylt do to me / I haue herd aye that thow art a good Cyrurgyen / wherfore I praye the / that thou wylt hele me of my foote / I aye to the my good broder / that yeter daye as I wente within the foret / a thorne entryd in to one of my feet behynd / the whiche me ore / I praye the / that or thow ete my fool / thow wylt drawe and haue it oute of my foote / And the wulf anwerd to the mare that halle I doo gladly my good uter/ hewe me