Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/232



En ought not by byleue on al maner pyrytes / As reherceth this fable of an old woman / which aid to her child bicaue that it wept / certeynly if thow wept ony more / I hal make the to be ate of the wulf / & the wulf heryng this old woman / abode tyll to fore the yate / & uppoed to haue eten the old womans child / & by caue that the wulf had oo longe taryed there that he was hongry / he retorned and went ageyne in to the wood/ And the hewulf demaunded of hym / why hat thow not brought to me ome mete / And the wulf anuerd / by caue / that the old woman hath begyled me / the whiche had promyed to me to gyue to me her child for to haue ete hym / And at the late I hadde hit not / And therfore men ought in no wye to trut the woman / And he is wel a fole that etteth his hope and trute in a woman / And therfore trute them not / and thow halt doo as the age and wye