Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/189

  And thenne the eldet of the three bretheren pake and ayd / I halle take fro the pere tree alle that is croked and vpright / And the econd ayd / I halle take fro the pere tree alle that is grene and drye / And the thyrd ayd I halle haue alle the / the pulle or mate and alle the branches of the pere tree / ¶ And thenne the Juge ayd to them / He that thenne halle haue the mot parte of the tree / lete hym be Juge / For I no none other may know ne vndertande who halle haue the more or lee parte / And therfore he that can or halle proue more openly / that he hath the mot parte hal be lord of the tree / ¶ And after the Juge demaunded of them / how that theyr fader had deuyed to them the gote / And they ayd to hym / he that halle make the fayret prayer and requet mut haue the gote / And thene the fyrte broder made his requet / and ayd in this manere / wold god that the goot were now oo grete that he myght drynke alle the water whiche is vnder the cope of heuen / And that whanne he hadde dronken it / he hold yet be ore thurty   ¶ The fecond ayd / I uppoe that the gote halle be myn / For a fayrer demaunde or requet than thyn is I halle now make / ¶ I wold / that alle the hempe / and alle the Flaxe and alle the wulle of the worlde were made in