Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/248

  ne that letteth more the man / than tharowe whiche is hotte fro the euyll tongue / For whanne om perone profereth or layth om wordes in a felauhip / of honet & good lyf / alle the felauhip uppoeth that that whiche this euylle tongue hath ayd be trewe / be hit trewe or not / how be it that it be but leynge / but notwithtondynge the good man halle euer be wounded of that ame arowe / whiche wound halle be Incurable / And yf hit were a troke of a pere / hit myght be by the Cyrurgyen heled / but the troke of an euylle tongue may not be heled / by caue that Incontynent as the word is profered or ayd / he that hath ayd hit / is no more mayter of hit / And for this caue the troke of a tongue is Incurable and withoute guaryon