Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/283

  hall he his / And by caue that we bothe ben ubtyle and wye / he halle not mowe dreme as wel as we halle / wherof the loof be ours / wherof alle they thre were wel content / and al byganne to lepe /

¶ But whanne the labourer or vylayne knewe and perceyued all theyre fallace / and awe that his two felawes were a leep / he wente and drewe the loof oute of the ouen and ete hit / ¶ And after he feyned to be a lepe / and thene one of the burgeys roe vp / and ayd to hys felawes / I haue dremed a wonder dreme / For two Angels haue taken & borne me with grete Joye before the dyuyn magete / And the other burgeys his felawe awoke and ayd / Thy dreme is merueyllous and wonderfull / but I uppoe that the myn is fayrer / than thyn is / For I haue dremed that two Angels drewe me on hard ground for to lede me in to helle / And after they dyd awake the vylayne whiche as dredeful ayd / who is there / and they anuerd / we be thy felawes / And he ayd to them / how be ye oo oone retourned / And they anwerd to hym / how retorned / we departed not yet fro hens / And he ayd to them by my feythe / I haue dremed that the Angels had led one of yow in to paradys or heuen / and the other in to helle / wherfor I uppoed / that ye hold neuer have comen