Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/192



One maye not be mayter without he haue be fyrte a diciple / As hit appiereth by this Fable / Of a Foxe whiche came toward a wulf / and ayd to hym / My lord I praye yow that ye wylle be my / And the wulf anuerd / I am content / And the foxe toke to hym his one hym that to his one he wold hewe and lerne good doctryne / the whiche the wulf tooke / and wente with hym vpon a montayne / And thenne he ayd to the lytyll foxe whanne the beetles halle come to the feldes calle me / And the foxe wente and awe fro the top of the hylle / how the beetes were comynge to the feldes / and forth with he wente and called his godfader / and ayd My godfader the beetes comen in to the feldes / And the wulf demaunded of hym / what betes are they / and the fox anuerd / they be bothe &  to gyder / Wel ayd the wulf / I gyue no force for them / lete them go for the dogges with them / And oone after the foxe dyd loke on another yde / and perceyued the whiche wente