Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/267

  but fewe ben in fayth or dede / but I halle telle to the what thow halt doo / Goo thou to my half frende / and bere to hym thy calf / and thow halt here and ee what he halle aye to the / And whanne the one came to the half frende of his fader / he ayd to hym as he dyd to the other / And whanne the half frende vndertode his fayt or dede / he anone toke hym ecretely in to his hows / and ledde hym in to a ure and obcure place / where he dyd burye his dede calf / wherof the one knewe the trouthe of the half frendes loue / Thenne the one of torned ageyne toward his fader / and told to hym all that his half frende had done to hym / And thenne the fader ayd to his one / that the philoopher aith that the very and trewe trend is fond in the xtreme nede / Thenne aked the one of his fader / awet thou neuer man whiche in his lyf gate a hole frend / & his fader aid to hym / I awe neuer none / but wel haue I herd it ay / And the one anuered / My fader I praye the that thow wylt reherce hit to me / to thende / that by aduenture I maye gete uche one / And the fader ayd to hym / My one / om tyme haue I herd of two marchaunts whiche neuer had ene eche other / the one was of Egypte / and the other was of Baldak but they had knowleche eche of other by theyr lettres