Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/280

  be hit that the woman wold haue reyted / Neuertheles in thende he was content / And thus the poure man retored the thowand crownes to the Ryche / and demaunded of hym the honderd crownes / And the ryche full of frawde or falhede ayd to the poure / thow rendret not to me al my gold / whiche thow fondet / For of hit I lack four honderd pyeces of gold   And whanne thow halt rendre and brynge to me ageyn the ayd four hondred pyeces of gold / thow halt haue of me the C crownes too whiche I promyed to the / And thenne the poure anuerd to hym / I haue take and brought to the al that I haue found / wherfore they fylle in a grete dyfferent or tryf / in o moche that the caue came before the kyng / to be decyded and pletyd/ of the whiche the kyng made to be callyd before hym a grete philoopher whiche was procuratour of the poures / And whanne the caue was wel diputed/ the philoopher moued with pyte/ called to hym the poure man / and to hym eyd in this maner / Come hyther my frend / by thy feythe hat thow retored alle that good whiche thou fondet in the pure / and the poure anuerd to hym / ye yre by my feythe / And thenne the philoophre ayd before thaitantes / Syth this ryche man is trewe and feythfull / and that hit is not to byleue / that he hould demaunde more