Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/290



Dicyple was omtyme / whiche toke his playyre to reherce and telle many fables / the whiche prayd to his mayter / that he wold reherce vnto hym a long fable / To whome the mayter anuerd / kepe and beware wel that hit happe not to vs / as it happed to a kyng and to his fabulatour   And the dicyple anuerd / My mayter I pray the to telle to me how it befelle / And thenne the mayter ayd to his decyple /   ¶ Somtyme was a kynge whiche hadde a fabulatour / the whiche reherced to hym at euery tyme / that he wold leep fyue fables for to reioyhe the kynge / and for to make hym falle in to a lepe / It befelle thenne on a daye / that the kynge was moche orowful and o heuy / that he coude in no wye falle a lepe / And after that the ayd fabulatour had told and reherced his fyue fables / the kynge deyred to here more / And thenne the ayd fabulatour recyted vnto hym thre fables wel horte / And the kynge thenne ayd to hym / I