Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/196



Rete folye is to a fool that hath no myght / that wylle begyle another tronger than hym elf / as reherceth this fable of a fader of famylle whiche had a grete herd or flock of heep / and had a grete dogge for to kepe them which was wel tronge / And of his voys all the wolues were aferd wherfore the heepherd lepte more urely / but it happed / that this dogge for his grete age deyde / wherfore the heepherdes were ore troubled and / and ayd one to other / we hall no more lepe at oure eae by caue that our dogge is dede / for the wulues hall now come and ete our heep /   ¶ And thenne a grete fyers and prowd / whiche herd alle thee wordes came to them and ayd / I halle gyue yow good counceylle / Shaue me / and put on me the kynne of the dogge   And whanne the wulues halle ee me / they halle haue grete fere of me / ¶ And whanne the wulues came and awe the wether clothed with the kynne of the dogge /