Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/229





Oo thynge is were to the man than the woman / As it appereth by this fable / of a man of a meane age / whiche tooke two wyues / that is to wete an old / & one yong / whiche were both dwellyng in his hows / & by caue that the old deyred to haue his loue / he plucked the blak herys fro his hede and his berde / by caue he hold the more be lyke her / And the yonge woman at the other yde plucked