Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/223



Ow the euyl which men wyhe to other / cometh to hym whiche wyheth hit / as hit appiereth by this fable / of a Bee whiche offred and gaf to Jupyter a pyce of hony / wherof Jupyter was moche Joyous / And thenne Jupyter ayd to the bee / demaunde of me what thow wylt / and I halle graunte and gyue hit to the gladly / And thenne the Bee prayed hym in this manere / God almyghty I pray the that thow wylt gyue to me and graūte / that who o euer hal come for to take awey my hony / yf I pryke hym / he may odenly deye / And by caue that Jupyter loued the humayn lygnage he ayd to the Bee / Suffye the / that who o euer halle goo to take thy hony / yf thow pryke or tynge hym / Incontynent thow halt deye / And thus her prayer was tourned to her grete dommage / For men ought not to demaude of god / but uche thynges that ben good and honet