Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/197

  they beganne all to flee / and ranne awey / ¶ It happed on a day that a wulf whiche was ore hongry / came and toke a lambe / and after ran awaye therwith / ¶ And thenne the ayd wether ranne atter hym / And the wulf whiche uppoed that it had ben the dogge  by the waye for the grete fere that he had / And ranne euer as fat as he coude / and the wether alo ranne after hym withoute cee / tyl that he ranne thurgh a buhe full of harp thornes / the whiche thornes and brake alle the dogges kynne / whiche was on hym / And as the wulf loked and awe behynde hym / beynge moche doubtous of his dethe / awe and perceyued alle the decepcion and falhede of the wether / And forthwith retorned ageynte hym / and demaunded of hym / what beet arte thow / And the wether anuerd to hym in this maner / My lord I am a wether whiche playeth with the / And the wulf ayd / Ha mayter ought ye to playe with your mayter and with your lord / thow hat made me o ore aferd / that by the waye as I ranne before the/ I dyte hyte thre grete toordes / And thene the wulf ledde hym unto the place where as he had hyte / ayenge thus to hym / loke hyther / callet thow this a playe / I take hit not for playe / For now I halle hewe to the / how thow oughtet not to playe o with thy lord / And thenne