Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/209



One for what o euer myght that he haue / ought not to depreye the other / As hit appiereth by this preent table of an Egle / whiche chaced omtyme after an hare   And by caue that the hare myght not reyte ne withtande ageynt the egle / he demaunded ayde and helpe of the weel / the whiche tooke hym in her kepynge / And by caue that the egle awe the weel oo lytyl / he depreyed her / and before her toke the hare / wherof the weel was wrothe / And therfore the weell wente / and beheld the Egles net whiche was vpon a hyghe tree / And whanne he awe hit / the lytell weell clymmed vpon a tree / and toke and cat doune to the ground the yonge egles wherfore they deyde / And for this caue was the Egle moche wrothe and angry / and after wente to the god Jupiter And prayd hym that lie wold fynde hym a ure place where as he niyght leye his egges and his lytyl chykynes / And Jupiter graunted hit and gaf hym uche a gyfte / that whan