Page:The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio. Vol 2.djvu/310



He generacion or byrth of the ypocryte is moche dampnable and euylle / As it appiereth by this fable / and as poge reherceth to vs whiche ayth / that omtyme he fond hym elf in a good felauhip / where he herd a fable / whiche was there reherced / Of the whiche the tenour foloweth / and eyth the ayd poge / that of alle the goodes of this world / the ypocrytes ben poeours / For how be hit / that an ypocryte haue omtyme wylle for to helpe omme poure and Indygent / Neuertheles he hath a condycyon within hym elf / that is to wete / that he hold rather ee a man at the poynt of dethe than for to aue his lyf of an halfpeny / And this preumpcion is called ypocryye / as ye hal here herafter by the fable folowyng the whiche ayth that one beynge in the felauhip of Poge reherced / that omtyme the cutomme of alle the poure was that they wente before the folkes dores withoute ayenge ony word   It happed thenne on that tyme that a poure man