Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/174

  thy foote / ¶ And as the mare hewed his foote to the wulf / he gaf to the wulf uche a troke bothe his eyen / that alle his hede was atonyed and felle doune to the ground / and a longe pace was the wulf lyenge vpon the erthe / as deed / And whanne he was come to hym elf ageyne / and that he coud peke / he ayd / I care not for this myihap / For wel I that yet this day I halle ete / and be fylled of delycious mete / And inayenge thee wordes lyft hym elf vp / and wente aweye / ¶ And whanne he had walked and gone a whyle / he fond two within a medowe whiche with theyr homes lauched eche other / And the wulf ayd to hymelf / Bleed be god / that now I hal be wel fedde / he thenne came the two rammes / & aid / Certaynly I hall ete the one of you two   And one of them ayd to hym / My lord doo alle that it plee yow / but fyrt ye mut gyue vs the entence of a procee of a plee whiche is bytwixe vs bothe / And the wulf anuerd / that with ryght a good wylle he wold doo hit / And after ayd to them / My lordes telle my your reons and / to thende that the better I may gyue the entence of your dyferent and / And thenne one of them beganne to ay / My lord / this medowe was bylongynge to our fader / And by caue that he deyde