Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/286

  wylle ynge whyle that I am in pryon / And thenne the labourer or vylayne anuerd / yf thow ynget not wel / I halle ete the / And thenne the nyghtyngale ayd to hym / yf thow putte me within a potte for to be oden / lytyl mete halt thou thenne make of my body / and yf thow ettet me for to be roted / lee mete halle be thenne made of me / And therfor neyther boylled ne roted halle not be thy grete bely fylled of me / but yf thow lete me flee / hit hall be to the a grete good prouffyte / For thre doctrynes I hall teche the whiche thow halt loue better than thre fat kyne / and thene the labourer lete the nyghtyngale flee / And whan he was oute of his handes / and that he was vpon a tree / he ayd to the vylayne in this maner / My Frend I haue promyed to the / that I hall gyue to the thre doctrynes / wherof the fyrt is this that thow byleue no thynge whiche is Impoyble / The econd is that thow kepe wel that thyn is / And the thyrd is / that thow take no orowe of the thynge lot whiche may not be recouererd / And oone after the nyghtyngale beganne to ygne / & in his onge ayd thus / bleyd be god / whiche hath delyuerd me oute of the handes of this vylayne or chorle / whiche hath not knowen / ene / ne touched the precious dyamond whiche I haue within my bely / For yf he had foūde