Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/199



E that reffueth the good doctryne of his fader / yf euyl happe cometh to hym / it is but ryght / As to vs reherceth this fable of a Labourer / whiche omtyme in a deerte of his cultyuynge and laboure / In this deerte was a lyon / whiche waited and detroyed all the ede / which euery daye the ayd labourer / and alo this lyon detroyed his trees / And by caue that he and dyd to hym o grete harme and dommage / he made an  / to the whiche he putte and ette cordes and nettes for to take lyon / And as this lyon came for to ete corne he entryed within a nette / & was taken / And thenne the good man came thiyder/ and bete and mote hym o wonderly / that he myght cape fro deth / And by caue that the lyon awe that he myght not ecape the ubtylyte of the man / he took his lytyl lyon / and went to dwelle in another Regyon / and within a lytyl whyle after that the lyon was wel growen and was fyers &