Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/277

  charyte / that he wold gyue to hym good coūceylle of his grete nede / & he reherced and told to hym al his caue & wore vpon the holy euangely that he toke none of the ryche mans oylle / And thenne the philoopher anuerd to hy in this manere / My one / haue no fere / for the trouthe may not faylle / And the next morowe after / the philoopher wente with the poure man in to Jugement / the whiche philoopher was contitued by the kynge for to gyue the Jut entence of hit / And after that the caue had be wel deffended and pleted by bothe partyes / the philoophre ayd / the ame ryche man is of good renommee / and I uppoe not that he demaunded more than he hould haue / And alo I byleue not that this poure may be maculed ne gylty of the blame / which he putteth on hym / but notwithtondynge for to knowe the trouthe of hit / I ordeyne and gyue entence / that the oylle pure and clene of the v tonnes whiche are ful to be meured / and alo the lye therof / And after that the pure and clene oylle of the fyue which been but half ful to be alo meaured / and with the lye thereof / and that men loke yf the lye of the fyue Tonnes half ful is egal and lyke to the lye of the fyue Tonnes / whiche ben fulle / And yf hit be not soo / that as moche lye be fond within the veels whiche ben but half full as in the other /