Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/221



E whiche is acutomed to make leynges / how be it that he aye trouthe / Yet men byleue hym not / As reherceth this fable / Of a child whiche omtyme kepte heep / the whiche cryed ofte withoute caue / ayenge / Allas for goddes loue ocoure yow me / For the wulf wylle ete my heep / And whanne the labourers that cultyued and ered the erthe aboute hym / herd his crye / they come to helpe hym / the whiche came o many tymes / and fond nothyng / And as they awe that there were no wulues / they retorned to theyr labourrage / And the child dyd o many tymes for to playe hym / ¶ It happed on a day that the wulf came / and the child cryed as he was acutomed to doo / And by caue that the labourers uppoed / that hit had not ben trouthe / abode tylle at theyr laboure / wherfore the wulf dyd ete the heep / For men bileue not lyghtly hym / whiche is knowen for a lyer