Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/179

  vepen / wherwith I maye trongly punyhe and bete me by grete penaunce / For wel worthy I am to receyue a gretter deciplyne / And the good man whiche was vpon the tree / alle thee wordes and deuyes / and ayd no word / ¶ And whanne the wulf had fynyhed alle his yghes and complayntes / the good man toke his axe / he had  awey the dede braunches fro the tre / and cat it vpon the wulf / and it felle vpon his neck in uche maner that the wulf torned vpodoun the feet vpward and laye as had ben dede / And whan the wulf releue and dree hym elf / he loked and byheld vpward to the heuen / and beganne thus to crye / Ha Jupiter I ee now wel that thow hat herd and enhaunced my prayer / and thenne he perceyued the man whiche was vpon the tree / & wel that he had ben Jupiter / And thenne with alle his myght he fledde towards the foret ore wounded / and rendred hym elf to humylyte / and more meke and humble he was afterwards than euer before he had ben fyers ne prowde / ¶ And by this fable men may knowe and ee that moche to be done of that / that a foole thynketh / And hit heweth to vs / that whan omme good cometh to omme / it ought not to be reffued / For it