Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/237



One ought to auaunce hym elf to doo that whiche can not doo / As hit appiereth of a frogge / whiche omtyme yued or came oute of a dyche / the whiche preumed to haue lepte vpon a hyghe montayne / And whanne he was vpon the mountayne / he ayd to other beetes / I am a maytree in medecyn / and canne gyue remedy to al manere of ekenes by myn arte / and ubtylyte / and halle rendre and brynge yow vp ageyne in good helthe / wherof ome byleued her /   And thenne the Foxe whiche perceyued the folyhe byleue of the beeles / beganne to lawhe / and ayd to them / poure beetes / how may this fowle and venemous beet whiche is eke and pale of colour render and gyue to yow helthe / For the leche whiche wylle hele omme other / ought fyrte to hele hym elf / For many one counterayteth the leche / whiche can not a word of the cyence of medecyne / from the whiche god preerue and kepe vs