Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/288



Philoopher ayd ones to his one / that whan he were falle by fortune in to omme dommage or perylle / the ooner that he myght he hold delyuere hym of hit / to thende / that afterward he hold no more be vexed ne greued of hit / As hit appiereth by this fable of a rethoryque man or fayr peker / whiche ones demaunded of a kynge / that of alle them whiche hold entre in to the cyte / hauynge omme faulte of. kynde on theyr bodyes / as crouked or counterfayted / he myght haue and take of them at thentre of the yate a peny / the whiche demaunde the kynge graunted to hym / and made his lettres to be ealed and wreton vnder his ygnet / And thus he kepte hym tyll at the yate / And of euery lame / cabbed / & of alle uche that had ony counterfaytour on theyr bodyes / he tooke a peny /   ¶ It happed thene on a day that a croukbacked and counterfayted man wold haue entryd within the Cyte withoute gyuynge of ony peny / and bethought hym elf / that he hold