Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/181



one ought not to haue enuye of good of other / As it appiereth by this fable / Of a dogge whiche was enuyous / and that omtyme was within a table of oxen / the whiche was ful of heye / This dogge the oxen that they hold not entre in to theyr table / and that they hold not ete of the ayd hey / And thenne the oxen ayd to hym / thow arte wel peruers and euylle to haue enuye of the good / the whiche is to vs nedefull and prouffitable / and thow hat of hit to doo / for thy is not to ete no hey / And thus he dyd of a grete bone / the whiche he held at his mouthe / and wold not  by caue and for enuye of another dogge / whiche was therby / And therfore kepe the wel fro the company or felauhip of an enuyous body / For to haue to doo with hym hit is moche peryllous and / As to vs is wel hewen by Lucyfer