Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/31

E that and helpeth the euylle men / ynneth / or after that men have doo to them ome good / they hurte them afterward / For as men ayen comynly / yf ye kepe a man fro the galhows / he halle neuer loue yow after / wherof Eope reherceth uche a fable /   ¶ A man was om tyme whiche fond a erpent within a Vyne / and for the grete wynter and frost the erpent was hard / and almot dede for cold wherof the good man had pyte and toke and bare her in to his hows and leyd her before the fyre / and o moche he dyd that that he came ageyne in to her trengthe and vygour / She beganne thynne to crye and whytled about the hows and troubled the good wyf / and the children / wherfor this good man wold haue her oute of his hows / And whanne he thoughte to have take her he prange after his neck for to have trangled hym / And thus hit is of the euyll folk whiche for the good done to them / they yeld ageyne euyll and them whiche have had pyte on them / And alo theyre felauhip is not good ne