Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/275



It befelle omtyme that a good man labourer wente fro lyf to deth / the whiche labourer lefte nothyng to his one / but only a hows / the whiche one lyued by the laboure of his handes pourely / This yong man had a neyghbour whiche was made ryche whiche demauded of the ayd yong man yf he wold elle his hows / but he wold not elle it / by caue that it was come to hym by inherytauce and by patrymony wherfore the ryche man his neygbour conueryd & was ful oft with hym for to deceyue hym / but the yong man fled his company as moche as he myght / & whan the ryche man perceyued that the yong man fled from hym / he bethougt hym elf of a grete decepcion & falhede / & demaūded of the poure yong man that he wold hyre to hym a parte of his hows tor to delue & make a celer / the whiche he hold hold of hym payeng to hym yerely rent / & the poure yong man hyred it to hym / & whan