Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/304



En ought not to doo ome other / that whiche he wold not that it were done to hym / As it appiereth by this preent fable / of a kynge whiche had a tayller whiche was as good a workman of his craft / as ony was at that tyme in alle the world / the whiche tayller had with hym many good eruauntes / wherof the one was called Medius / whiche urmounted alle the other in hapynge or ewynge / wherfore the kyng commaunded to his tyward that the ayd tayllers hold fare wel / and haue of the bet metes and of delycious drynke /   ¶ It happed on a daye that the mayter Styward gaf to them ryght good and delycious mete in the whiche was ome hony / And by caue that Medius was not atte that fete / the tyward ayd to the other / that they hold kepe for hym omme of their mete / And thenne the mayter tayller anuerd / he mut none haue / For yf he were here / he