Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/273

  and holden for a good man and trewe / And therfore retorne ageyne to hym / and by wete wordes telle hym that he wyl rendre to the thy good ageyne / the whiche thynge he dyd / and the old man anuerd to hym more harpely and wonderly than he had done before / wherof the paynard was wonderly wrothe / And as he departed oute of the old mans hows / he mette with an old woman / the whiche demaunded of hym / wherfore he was oo troubled and heuy / And after that he had told to her the caue why / thold woman ayd to hym / make good chere / For yf hit is o as thow ayt / I halle counceylle the how thou halt recouere thy yluer / And thenne he demauded of her / how hit myght be done / And he ayd to hym bryng hyther to me a man of thy country whome thow trutet / and doo to be made four fayre chetes / and fylle them alle with tones / and by thy felawes thow halt make them to be borne / in to his hows / and to hym they halle ay / that the marchaūts of payne end them to hym for to kepe urely / And whan the chetes halle be within his hows / thow halt go and demāde of hym thy yluer / whiche thynge he dyd / And as the ayd chetes were borne within his hows / the paynard wente with them / that bare them / the whiche traungers ayd to the old mā My lord / thee