Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/281

  than he ought to doo / he ought to be byleued / And as to the other parte men mute byleue that this poure man is of good renomme and knowen for a trewe man wherfore the philoopher ayd to the kynge / Syre I gyue by my lenience / that thow take thee thowand crownes / and that an C thow take of them / the whiche honderd thow hall delyuere to this poure man whiche fond them / And after whan he that hath lot them hall come / thow retore them to hym / And yf it happeth that another perone fynde the thowand & four C crownes / they hal be rendryd and taken ageyne to the ame good man whiche is here preent whiche ayth that he hath lot them / the whiche entence was moche agreable and pleaunt to al the companye / And when the ryche man awe that he was deceyued / he demaunded myerycorde and grace of the kynge ayenge in this manere / Syre this poure man that hath fond my pure / trewely he hath retored it to me all that I ouȝt to haue / but certaynly I wold haue deceyued hym / wherfore I praye the that thou wylt haue pyte and myerycorde on me   And thenne the kynge had myerycorde on hym / And the poure man was wel contented and payd / and al the malyce of the ryche man was knowen and manyfeted