Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/240



Uery creature ought to be content of that / that god hath gyuen to hym withoute to take their herytaunce of other / As reherceth this fable   Of a camel whiche om tyme complayned hym to Jupiter of that the other beetes mocqued hym / by caue that he was not of o grete beaute / as they were of / wherfore to Jupiter Intantly he prayd in uche maner as foloweth / Fayr yre and god / I requyre and praye that thow wylt gyue to me hornes / to thende that I maye be nomore mocqued / Jupiter then beganne to lawhe / and in tede of hornes / he took fro hym his erys / and ayd / thow hat more good than hit behoueth thee to haue / And by caue that thow demaundet that / whiche thow oughtet not to haue I haue take fro the that whiche of ryght and kynd thow ouȝtet to haue / For none ought not to deyre more than he ought to haue / to the ende that he lee not that whiche he hath /