Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/177

  to me / ¶ And as he paed thurgh the trete / he awe omme heep / and as the hepe awe hym / they entryd in to a table / ¶ And whan the wul came there he ayd to them in this manere / God kepe you my uters / I mut ete one ot yow / to thende / that I may be fylled and of my grete honger / And thenne one of them ayd to hym / Certaynly my lord / ye are welcome to pae / For we ben comen hyder for to hold a grete / wherfore we alle praye yow / that ye pontyfycally wylle ynge   And after the eruye complete and done / doo what ye wyll of the one of vs / & thenne the wulf for vayn glory / to be a prelate beganne to ynge and to howle before the heep / ¶ And whanne the men of the toune herd the voys of the wulf / they came to the table with grete taues and with grete dogges / and wonderly they wounded the wulf / and almot brouoght hym to deth / that with grete payne he coude goo / neuertheles he caped / and wente vnder a grete tree / vpon the whiche tree was a man whiche of the  of the tree / The wulf thenne beganne to yghe ore / and to make grete orowe of his euylle fortune / and ayd / Ha Jupiter how many euyls haue I had and uffred this daye / but wel I preume and knowe / that hit is by me and by myn owne caue / and by