Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/201

  the man / to whome he ayd in this maner / Ha man thow hat done ouer many euyls / bothe to me and to my Fader / and in lyke wyle to oure beetes / Wherfore I telle the that to me thow halt doo Jutyce / And the man anuerd to hym / I promytte and warne the / that yf thow come me I halle lee with this greete clubbe / And after with this knyf I hall the / And the lyon ayd to hym / Come thenne before my fader / and he as kynge halle doo to vs good Jutyce / And thenne the man ayd to the lyon / I am content / yf that thow wylt were to me / that thow halt not touche me / tyll that we in the preence of thy fader / And in lyke wye I halle were to the / that I hal go with the vnto the preence of thy fader / And thus the lyon and the man wered eche one to other / and wente toward the grete lyon / and the man beganne to goo bv the way where as his cordes and nettes were dreed / And as they wente / the lyon lete hym elf falle within a corde / and by the feet he was take / o tht he myghte not farther goo / And by caue he coude not goo he ayd to the man / O man I prey the that thow wilt helpe me / For I may no more goo / And the man anwerd to hym / I am worne to the that I halle not touche the vnto the tyme that we ben before thy