Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/274

  four chetes ben al ful of gold / of yluer and of precious tones / whiche we brynge to yow / as to the trewet man and feythful that we knowe for to kepe them urely by caue that we fere and doubte the theues / whiche ben within the deert / After the whiche wordes ayd / came he / whiche the old woman had counceylled / and demaunded of hym his yluer   And by that caue the old man doubted / that the panynard wold haue depreyed hym / he ayd thus to hym / Thow arte Welcome / I merueylled how thow taryet oo longe for to come / And Incontynent he retored to hym his yluer / And thus by the counceylle of the woman whiche he gretely thanked / he had his good ageyn / and retourned ageyne in to his countrey /