Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/291

  wold fayne here one wel longe / And thenne halle I leue wel the lepe / The fabulatour thenne reherced vnto hym uche a fable / Of a ryche man whiche wente to the market or feyre for to bye heep / the which man bought a thowand heep / And as he was retornynge fro the feyre / he cam vnto a Ryuer/ and by caue of the grete waiues of the water he coude not parte ouer the bridge / Neuertheles he wente oo longe to and fro on the Ryuage of the ayd Ryuer / that at the lat he fonde a narowe way / vpon the whiche myght pae cant ynough thre heep attones / And thus he parted and had them ouer one after another / And hyderto reherced of this fable / the fabulatour felle on lepe / And anon after the kynge awoke the fabulatour / and ayd to hym in this manere / I pray the that thow wylt make an ende of thy fable / And the fabulatour anuerd to hym in this manere   Syre this Ryuer is right grete / and the hip is lytyl / wherfore late the marzhaunt doo pas ouer his heep / And after I halle make an ende of my fable / And thenne was the kynge wel appeaed and pacyfyed /   ¶ And therfore be thow content of that I haue reherced vnto the / For there is folke upertycious or capaxe / that they may not be contented with fewe wordes