Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/19

Romulus on of thybere Cyte of Atyque / gretyng / Esope man of grece / ubtyll and Ingenyous / techeth in his fables how men ought to kepe and rewle well / And to that he hold hewe the lyf and cutomes of al maner of men / he induceth the byrdes / the trees and the beetes pekynge to thende that the men may knowe wherfore the fables were  / In the whiche he hath  the malyce of the euylle people and the argument of the  / He techeth alo to be humble and for to ve wordes / And many other fayr Enamples reherced and declared here after / the whiche I Romulus have tranlated oute of grekes tongue in to latyn tongue / the whiche yf thou rede them / they halle  and harpe thy wytte and hal gyue to the caue of Joye /