Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/246



Or what vertue that ony man hath / none oughte to preye hym elf / As hit apiereth by this fable / Of a pecok / whiche omtyme made a dyner to a crane / And And whanne they had eten and dronken ynough / they had grete wordes to gyder / wherfore the pecok ayd to the crane / Thow hat not o fayre a forme ne o fayre a fygure as I haue / ne alo fayr fethers / ne oo replendyhynge as I haue / To whome the crane anuerd / and ayd / It is trouthe / Neuertheles thow hat not one good / ne one o fayre a vertue as I haue / For how be hit that I haue no o fayre fethers as thow hat / yet can I flee better than thy elf dot / For with thy fayre fethers thow mut euer abyde on the erthe / and I may flee where omeuer hit pleaeth me / And thus euerychone ought to haue uffyaunce and to be content of that / that he hath / without auanncynge or prayynge of hym elf / and not to dypreye none other.