Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/302

  to lete me goo vpon the pere tre / And I halle gader for vs bothe ome fayre peres / wel my frend ayd the blynd man / I wylle wel & graut therto / And when he was vpon the tree / the yong man begann to hake the pere tree at one yde / and the yonge woman at the other yde / as the blynd man herd thus hard hake the pere tree / And the noye whiche they made / he ayd to them / Ha a woman / how be it that I ee hit not / Neuertheles I fele and vndertande hit well / But I praye to the goddes / that they voucheauf to ende me my lyght ageyne / And as oone as he had made his prayer Jupiter rendryd to hym his yght ageyn ¶ And whanne he awe that pagent vpon the pere tree / he ayd to his wyf   Ha vnhappy woman / I halle neuer haue no Joye with the / And by caue that the yonge woman was redy in peche and malycious / he anuerd forth with to her hubond / My frend thow arte wel beholden and bounden to me / For by caue and for the loue the goddes haue retored to the thy yght / wherof I thanke alle the goddes and godees whiche haue enhaunced and herd my prayer / For I deyryng moche that thow myght ee me / ceed neuer day ne nyght to pray them / that theye wold rendre to the thy yghte/ wherfore the goddee Venus vyybly hewed her elf to