Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/243



He poure ought not to take the Ryche as his felawe as it appiereth by this fable of two pottes / of the whiche the one was coper / and the other of erthe / the whiche pottes dyd mete to gyder within a Ryuer /   ¶ & by caue that the erthen pot wente wyfter than dyd the coper potte / the pot of coper ayd to the pot of erthe / I praye the that we may goo to gyder / And the erthen potte anuerd and ayd to the coper pot / I wylle not go with the / For it hold happe to me as it happed to the glas and of the morter   For yf thow holdet mete with me / thow holdet breke and putte me in to pyeces /   ¶ And therfore the poure is a fole that compareth and lykeneth hym elf to the ryche and myghty / For better is to lyue in pouerte than to deye vylaynouly and oppreyd of the ryche