Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/28

O man is chaunged by nature but of an euyll man maye wel yue and come a wers than hymelf / wherof Eope telleth uche a fable / A theef held the feet of his weddynge / And his neyghbours came there as the fet was holden and worhipped / and bare honour to the theef / And as a wye man awe that the neyghbours of this theef were ioyeful and glad / he ayd to them / Ye make joye & gladnes of that / wherof ye holde wepe / take hede thenne to my wordes and vndertond your ioye /¶ The onne wolde be maryed / But alle the Nacions of the world were ageynt hym / & prayd Iupiter that he hold kepe the onne fro weddyng / & Jupiter demaunded of them the caue why they wolde not haue hym to be wedded / the one of them aid/ Iupiter thou knowet wel / how ther is but one onne & yet he vs al / & yf he be maryed & haue ony children / they hal detroye al kynde / And this fable techeth vs that we ought not to be reioyhed of euyll felowhip /