Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/20

s a Cok ones ought his pature in the / he fond a precious tone / to whome the Cok ayd / Ha a fayre tone and precious thow arte here in the fylth And yf he that deyreth the had found / as I haue he wold haue take the vp / and ette the ageyne in thy fyrt etate / but in vayne I haue found the / For no thynge I haue to do with the / ne no good I may doo to the ne thou to me / And thys fable ayde Eope to them that rede this book / For by the cok is to vndertond the fool which not of apyence ne of wyedome / as the cok retcheth and etteth not by the precious tone / And by the tone is to vndertond this fayre and playaunt book