Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/244



T is not alweye tyme to auenge hym elf of his enemye / As it appiereth by this fable, of a bole / whiche omtyme fledde before a lyon / And as the bole wold entre within a cauerne for to aue hym / a gote wente geynte hym for to kepe and lette hym that he hold not entre in it / to whome the bole ayd / It is not tyme now to auenge me on the / for the lyon that chaeth me / but the tyme halle come that wel I halle fynde the / For men ought not to doo to hym elf dommage for to be auengyd of his enemy / but oughte to loke for tyme and place couenable for to doo hit