Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/250



One for his beaute ought not to depreye ome other / For omtyme uche one is fayre that oone wexeth lothely and fowle / and to hyghe falleth vnto lowe / as it apperyth by this fable / Of a fayr tree whiche mocqued and corned a lytyl buhe / and ayd /   ¶ Seet thow not / my fayre fourme and my fayre fygure / And that of me men fayre edefyces as palays and catellis / galeyes & other hippes for to aylle on the ee / And as he auaunced & preyed hym elf thus / came there a labourer with his axe for to hewe and myte hym to the ground / And as the labourer mote vpon the fayre tree / the buhe ayd / Certaynly my broder yf now thow were as lytel / as I am / men hold not hewe ne myte the doune to the erthe / And therfore none oughte to reioyhe hym elf of his worhip / For uche is now in grete honour and worhip / that herafter halle falle in to grete vytupere hame and dihonour