Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/305

  hold not ete of hit / For he ete neuer no hony / And as they had done / Medius came / and demaunded of his felawes / why kepte you not parte of this mete for me / And the tyward anuerd and ayd to hym / By caue that thy mayter ayd to me / that thow ete neuer no hony / no parte of the mete was kepte for the And Medius anuerd thenne neuer one word / but beganne to thynke/ how he myght paye his mayter / And on a day as the tyward was allone with Medius / he demaunded of Medius / yf he knewe no man that coude werke as wel as his mayter / And Medius ayd nay / And that it was grete dommage of a ekenes that he had / And the tyward demaunded what ekenes hit was / And thenne Medius anuerd to hym / My lord whan he is entryd in to his frany or wodenes / there cometh vpon hym a rage / And how halle I knowe hit ayd the tyward / Certaynly my lord ayd Medius / whan ye hall ee that he halle ette at his werke / and that he halle loke here and there / and hal myte vpon his borde with his fyt / thenne may ye know that his ekenee cometh on hym / And thene withoute ye take and bynde hym and alo bete hym wel / he halle doo grete harme and dommage / And the tyward ayd to hym / Care not therof my frend / For wel I halle beware my