Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/261



E that ouer ladeth hym elf / is euylle trayned / As this fable ayeth / of a man / whiche had a goos / that leyd euery day an egge of gold / The man of auaryce or couetounes commaunded and bad to her / that euery daye he hold leye two egges / And he ayd to hym / Certaynly / my mayter I maye not / wherfore the man was wrothe with her / and lewe her / wherfore he lot that ame grete good / of the whiche dede he was moche orowful and wrothe / how be it that it was not tyme to hette the table whan the hores ben lote / & gone/ And he is not wye whiche does uch a thynge / wherof he halle repente hym after ward / ne healo / whiche doth his owne dommage for to auenge hym elf on omme other / For by caue that he uppoeth to wynne al / he leeth all that he hath.