Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/251



En ought not to leue that thynge whiche is ure & certayne / for hope to haue the vncertayn / as to vs reherceth this fable of a fyhier whiche with his lyne toke a lytyll fyhe whiche ayd to hym / My frend I pray the / doo to me none euylle / ne putte me not to dethe / For now I am nought / for to be eten / but whanne I halle be grete / yf thow come ageyne hyther / of me halt thow mowe haue grete auaylle / For thenne I halle goo with the good whyle / And the Fyher ayd to the fyhe. Syn I hold the now / thou halt not cape fro me / For grete foly hit were to me for to eke the here another tyme / For men ought not to lete goo that / of what they be ure of / hopynge to haue afterwards that that they haue not and whiche is vncertayne.