Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/252



One oughte to doo harme or dommage to omme other for to receyue or doo his owne dommage / As hit appereth by this fable / Of Jupiter whiche ent phebus in to therthe for to haue al the knowlege of the thouȝt of men   ¶ This phebus thenne mette with two men / of whiche the one was moche enuyous / And the other ryght couetous / Phebus demaunded of them what theyr thought was / We thynke aid they to demaunde and ake of the grete yeftes / To the which phebus anuerd / Now demaunde that ye wylle / For all that that ye halle demaunde of me / I halle graunte hit / And of that / that the fyrt of yow halle ake / the econd haue the dowble parte / or as moche more ageyne / And thenne the auarycious ayd / I wyl that my felawe ake what he wyll fyrt wherof the enuyous was wel content / whiche ayd to Phebus Fayre yre I praye the that I maye lee one of myn eyen / to thende that my felawe may lee al bothe his eyen / wherfor