Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/225

  maund the helpe and ayde of the goddes / And thenne Mercury appiered to tore hym / and hewed to hym an axe of gold / and demaunded of hym in uche manere / Is the ame hit that thow hat lot / And he anuerd to Mercury / ye fayre yre and myghty god the ame is it / And Mercury eynge the malyce of the vylayne gaf to hym neyther the ame ne none other / and lefte hym wepynge / For god whiche is good and Jurt rewarded the good and trewe in this world / or eche other after his deerte and punyheth the eyylle and Iniute