Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/178

  my proud thoughte / For the daye in the mornynge I fond a ak ful of talowe / the whiche I not but only melle hit. And after I fond a grete pycece of bakon / the whiche I wold neuer ete for drede of grete thurt and for my folyhe thought / And therfore yf euylle is happed to me it is wel betowed and employed / My fader was neuer medecyn ne / and alo I haue not tudyed and lerned in the cyence of medycyn or phiyke / therfore if it happeth euylle to me / whanne I wold drawe the thorne oute of the mares fote it is wel employed / ¶ my fader was neuer neyther patryarke ne Bihop / and alo I was neuer lettred / and yet I preumed / and toke on me for to acryfyce and to ynge before the goddes / faynyng my elf to be a prelate / but after my deerte I was wel rewarded / ¶ Item my fader was no legit ne neuer knewe the lawes / ne alo man of Jutyce / and to gyue entence of a plee / I wold me / and fayned my elf grete Jutycer / but I knewe neyther / a / / b / ¶ And yf therfore euylle is come to me / it is of me as of ryght it hold be / O Jupyter I am worthy of gretter whanne I haue offened in o many maners / ende thow now to me from thyn hyghe throne a or other