Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/23

ow it be o / that as the rat went in pylgremage / he came by a Ryuer / and demaunded helpe of a frogge tor to pae / and go over the water / And thenne the frogge bound the rats foote to her foote / and thus wymed vnto the myddes ouer the Ryuer / And as they were there the frogge tood tylle / to that the rat hold be drowned / And in the meane whyle came a kyte vpon them / and bothe bare them with hym / This fable made Eope for a ymylytude whiche is prouffitable to many folkes / For he that thynketh evylle ageynt good / the evil whiche he thynketh hall ones falle upon hym elf.