Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/264



f two euyls men ought euer to echewe and flee the wort of bothe / yf ony of them may be echewed / as hit appiereth by this fable / of a wulf / whiche ranne after a lambe / the whiche lambe fled into the hows where as gotes were / And whan the wulf awe that he myght in no wye take the lambe / he ayd to hym by wete wordes / Leue thy felauhip / and come with me into the feldes / for yf thow come not / thow halt be take by them / and halt be acryfyed to theyre goddes / And the lamb anuered to the wulf / I haue leuer to hede al my blood for the loue of the goddes / and to be / than to be eten and deuoured of the / And therfore he is ful of wyedome and of prudence / who of two grete euyls may and can ecape the grettet of bothe /