Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/200

  tronge he demaunded of his fader / My fader be we of this Regyon / Nay ayd the fader / For we ben fledde awey fro oure land / And thenne the lytyl lyon aked / / And the fader anuerd to hym / For the ubtylyte of the man / And the lytyl lyon demaunded of hym what man is that / And his fader ayd to hym / he is not oo grete ne o tronge as we be / but he is more ubtyle and more Ingenyous / than we be / and thene ayd the one to the fader / I halle goo auenge me on hym   And the grete lyon ayd to hym / goo not / For yf thow got thyder thow halt repente the therfore / and halt doo lyke a fole   And the one anuerd to his fader / Ha by my I halle goo thyder / and halle ee what he can doo / And as he wente for to fynde the man / he mette an oxe within a medowe / and an hors whoe back was al / and ore / to whome he aid in this manere / who is he that hath ledde yow hyder / and that o hath o hurted yow / And they ayd to hym / It is the man / ¶ And thenne he ayd ageyne to them / Certaynly / here is a wonder thynge / I praye yow / that ye wylle hewe hym to me   And they wente and shewed to hym the labourer / which ered the erthe / And the lyon forthwith and withoute ayinge of ony moo wordes wente toward