Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/236

  beganne to flee / For they wend / that it had be the lyon / And the mayter of the ae erched and oughte his ae in euery place al aboute   And as he had oughte longe / he thoughte that he wold go in to the foret for to ee yf his ae were there / And as oone as he was entryd in to the foret / he mette with his ae arayed as before is ayd / but his mayter whiche had oughte hym longe awe his erys / wherfore he knewe hym wel / and anone toke hym / and ayd in this manere / Ha a mayter ae / arte thow clothed with the kynne of the lyon / thow maket the betes to be aferd / but yf they knewe the / as wel as I do / they hold haue no fere of the / but I enure the / that wel I halle bete the therfore / And thenne he toke fro hym the kynne of the lyon / and ayd to hym Lyon halt thow be no more / but an ae halt thow euer be / And his mayter tooke thenne a taf / and mote hym / oo that euer after he remembryd hym wel of hit / And therfore he whiche auaunceth hym elf of other mennes goodes is a very foole / For as men ayn comynly he is not wel arayed nor wel appoynted / whiche is clothed with others gowne / ne alo it is not honete to make large thonges of other mennes leder