Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/268

  lettres / whiche they ente and wrote frendly one to the other / hit befelle thenne that the merchaunt of Baldak came in to egypte for to chepe & bye omme ware or marchaundye / wherof his frend was moche gladde / and wente to mete hym and brought him benyngly in to his hows / And after that he had chered and fetyed hym by the pace of xiiij dayes / the ame marchaunt of baldak wexed and became eke / wherof his frend was sorowfull and ful heuy / and Incontynent ente for phiycyens or leches thurugh alle egypte for to recouere his helthe / And whan the medecyns had ene and vyyted hym / and his vryne alo / they ayd that he had no bodyly ekeness / but that he was rauyhed by loue / And whan his Frend herd thee wordes / he came to hym / and ayd / My frende I pray the / that thou wilt hewe and telle to me thy sekenes / And his frend aid to hym I praye the / that thow wylt make to come hyder alle the wymmen and maydens whiche ben in thy hows / for to ee / yf he whiche my herte deyreth is emonge them / And anone his Frend made to come before hym bothe his owne doughters & eruants Emonge the whiche was a yonge mayde / whiche he had nouryhed for his playyre / And whan the pacyent or eke man awe her / he ayd to his frend / the ame is he whiche maye be caue