Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/241



En ought not to hold felauhip with hym / whiche is acutommed to begyle other/ As hit appiereth by thys Fable / Of two felawes whiche omtyme held felauhip to eche other for to goo bothe by montaynes and valeyes And for to make better theyr vyage / they were worne eche one to the other / that none of them bothe hould leue other vnto that the tyme of dethe hold come and departe them / And as they walked in a foret they mette with a grete wyld bere / & bothe felaws ran lone awey for fere / of the whiche the one clymmed / vpon a tree / And whan the other awe that his felawe had lefte hym leyd hym elf on the erthe / and fayned to be dede / And Incontynent the bere came for to ete hym / but by caue the gallaunt playd wel his game / the bere went forthe his waye and touched hym not / And thene his felawe came doun fro the tree whiche ayd to hym / I pray thee to telle me what the bere ayd to the / For as me emeth he pake to the / and hath