Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/194

  I can cat the deuylle fro the clyf / Lete vs go  / and ye halle ee yf I haue lerned or not / ¶ And the yong foxe wold haue done as his godfader the wulf dede / and aid to his moder / make good watche / ¶ And whanne the beetles halle come to the feld / lete me haue therof knowlege / And his moder ayd / wel my one o halle I doo / She maade good watche / And whanne he awe that bothe kyne and wyne wente to the feldes / he ayd thenne to hym   My one the kyne and the wyn to gyder ben in the feldes / And he anuerd / My moder of them I not / lete them goo / for the dogges kepe them wel / ¶ And within a hort whyle after / the moder awe come the mare vnto a / and wente / and ayd to her one / My one the mare is nyghe the wood And he anuerd / My moder thee ben good / Abyde ye here / For I goo to fetche our dyner / and wente and entred in to the Wode / And after wold doo as his godfader dyd before / and wente and tooke the mare by the neck / But the mare tooke hym with her teeth / and bare hym to the heepherd   And the moder cryed from the top of the hylle / My one lete goo the mare / and come hyder ageyne / but he myght not / For the mare held hym fat with her teethe / ¶ And as the